Where's my fiber?

Chris Holland recently described how Hermosa Beach Gets Fiber to the Home. We're also in Verizon Fios land, but not much is happening here yet.

Last I heard from an insider (about a month ago), they were just about finished wiring Malibu and were working hard to drop fiber into a new housing development in Camarillo with the intention of pushing on to the rest of the city soon (likely happening by now). So why did this process bypass Thousand Oaks?

The scuttlebutt is that the city council is still pretty pissed at Verizon about the heave ho they pulled off with the former GTE Americast cable customers when we were sold to Adelphia (and now we're in some kind of tug of war between Comcast and Time Warner). GTE (before the Verizon big bang) made quite a splash here when we were a flagship city for the Americast service, going so far as walking door to door to talk to prospective customers (like me) and sign them up (me again); granted it didn't take much to make me switch from a company I called Very Crummy Cable on a good day (later purchased by TCI and then I think Adelphia) but they really had terrific features and service for the time (I'm guessing late '95 or so). It'll take a little while before the feathers are sufficiently smoothed to allow Verizon to creep back in to play once again in the video wars.

Best guess? Sometime next year. Maybe. I hope.