Google Fiber Cleared to Set Up Shop in Portland, Oregon

The most anticipated Internet service in the land, Google Fiber, has now been cleared to operate in Portland, Oregon, courtesy of an approved franchise agreement by the Portland City Council.

As part of this arrangement, Google Fiber can offer its standard slate of services to customers in the Portland area, and would only pay a 5% franchise fee on video revenue through its service, and would avoid the additional 3% fee tacked on to other fiber services like Comcast.

Portland is one of 34 cities in the United States that Google has deemed a potential grassroots location for its Fiber technology, though Google hasn’t actually made the final call on whether Portland customers can look forward to it at all. That decision will happen before the end of the year, most likely.

Google is currently only dedicated to three cities in the US in terms of providing Google Fiber – Kansas City, Kansas, Austin, Texas and Provo, Utah.

It’s also in-the-works to come to my city of Charlotte, NC in the near future, but we’re still waiting for word on that one…

[Source: PC Mag, The Oregonian via The Verge]