Broadband Competition Intensifies in Oregon

Broadband competitors are deploying and expanding fiber facilities in Portland, Oregon for what looks to be a broad-based battle. CenturyLink and Frontier are both challenging cable incumbent Comcast with bundled services that, in a limited number of neighborhoods in the Portland metro, include gigabit data connections.

Incumbent telco CenturyLink has deployed fiber—and its gigabit service offer—to a limited number of residences and small businesses in Sunnyside, Hawthorne, Belmont, Richmond, Mt. Tabor, Kerns, Hosford-Abernethy, Creston-Kenilworth, Sellwood-Moreland, Buckman, Brooklyn, and Laurelhurst, all on the eastern side of Portland proper. Outside of its fiber footprint, CenturyLink’s DSL service tops out at 40 Mbps ...