CenturyLink Brings Its Prism TV Service to Portland Friday May 15 2015 14:40 EDT Last year CenturyLink started offering 1 Gbps to a smattering of high-end development communities in places like Omaha and Las Vegas, but has been pretty ambiguous about just how many users can get the service. Last August they stated they'd be offering 1 Gbps speeds in parts of sixteen cities (including Seattle, Phoenix, Portland, Salt Lake City), but again, specific build locations and total potential subscriber numbers have been nowhere to be seen. This week, CenturyLink announced that Portland users able to get gigabit broadband can now order the company's Prism IPTV service. According to the telco, Prism TV is currently available to Portland residents and businesses with fiber service in the Sunnyside, Hawthorne, Belmont, Richmond, Mt. Tabor, Kerns, Hosford-Abernethy, Creston-Kenilworth, Sellwood-Moreland, Buckman, Brooklyn and Laurelhurst neighborhoods. The company's website lets users sign up to be notified of expansion. Again, how many customers specifically can sign up for service isn't clear; the company has been taking heat in the Pacific Northwest for over-stating the actual availability of gigabit services. The vast, vast majority of CenturyLink customers remain on sub 6 Mbps DSL with usage caps. |
DaveDudeNo Fear join:1999-09-01 New Jersey |
Only one PrismThis is the prism i remember | |
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Re: Only one PrismWay back machine! I remember this too it was the regional Philly premium pay channel I think they had movies and Flyers hockey as well. Suburban Cable TV days. | |
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ApophisJaffa Kree Premium Member join:2001-12-27 Holmen, WI |
Apophis
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2015-May-15 3:37 pm
ExamplePutting a prism device on a CenturyLink dsl connection is about as stupid as attaching a rail car to a horse. | |
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Re: Examplesaid by Apophis:Putting a prism device on a CenturyLink dsl connection is about as stupid as attaching a rail car to a horse. i believe that a requirement for prism tv deployment in any location is the presence of vdsl2 enabled dslams. it can't be run over the adsl lines that are in most of c-links rural locations served. q. | |
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Re: Examplesaid by tubbynet:it can't be run over the adsl lines that are in most of c-links rural locations served. Wrong. It can, via the pair-bonded ADSL2+ using the Cisco DDR2200 unit like CenturyLink uses in the Fort Myers/Cape Coral Florida market. | |
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bockbock
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2015-May-18 9:04 am
Re: ExampleYup. I believe CL still uses ADSL2+ herein Tallahassee, FL for their Prism TV service. AT&T does this as well with their U-Verse customers if they are too far away from the cabinet to get VDSL2. | |
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said by Apophis:Putting a prism device on a CenturyLink dsl connection is about as stupid as attaching a rail car to a horse. LOL. I think it's called "Prism" TV because in FTTP installations they use passive optical splitters to split one beam into mean over single-mode fiber for GPON/BPON setups. | |
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linicxCaveat Emptor Premium Member join:2002-12-03 United State |
linicx
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2015-May-16 1:13 am
They it goesCL is bragging again "This week, CenturyLink announced that Portland users able to get gigabit broadband can now order the company's Prism IPTV service."
Century Link can offer gigabyte broadband to LV, Omaha, Portland, Phoenix, etc.. But it cannot provide a working telephone to a rural home in America. | |
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Can we get other markets fully deployed first?My house in Phoenix has a perfectly good 40/5 line coming in, but i still cannot order Prism TV here for some reason.
Considering i can max out the 40Mbps line 24/7 without any loss in speed tells me my DSLAM is most likely fine bandwidth wise to handle my 8Mbps HD stream a few times a week, but CL states "it just wont work" | |
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bockbock
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2015-May-18 9:04 am
Re: Can we get other markets fully deployed first?With that much bandwidth, you could just cord cut. And you are one of the lucky few who can get a full 40/5 out of CenturyLink. Most of CenturyLink's customers would be glad to get even half that. | |
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It'll probably work from a technical perspective, and all of the bonded modems they're handing out these days will do Prism, but if I remember correctly, there's some licensing and TV franchising issues and they must get explicit permission in each municipality. So like, Phoenix, Tempe, Scottsdale, Peoria, and Mesa might all have it, but Gilbbert, Chandler, and Glendale might not.
There's probably something else going on causing them not to do it. | |
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clones
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2015-May-18 11:08 am
FTTHWould be nice if they offered 1 GBPS in Ankeny. They spent the money to deploy fiber to the home to a new subdivision and treat it like DSL. Will never understand why they don't try to leverage technology. Instead they hold back as much as they can. | |
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coryw
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2015-May-18 12:23 pm
Re: FTTHWhen you say "treat it like DSL" do you mean that they're only offering like 7 megs on it, or is CL's 100/50 tier available on it?
Fiber doesn't necessarily mean fast, but the fact that it's there is very good for future hopes of speed upgrades. (compared to DSL where the vast majority of the footprint isn't going to see much in the way of speed upgrades any time soon.) | |
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clones
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2015-May-18 12:29 pm
Re: FTTHWe can now finally get 100\50, but it has 250 GB cap just like the other "faster" speeds. Why not allow users to use it and offer great things with it. Instead I can get a faster connection through my cable provider with a much higher cap (2 TB). | |
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holocron Premium Member join:2004-06-28 Mount Vernon, NY |
holocron
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2015-May-18 12:48 pm
Cost?Show me the money?
They're supposedly bringing this crap to Minneapolis.... | |
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