With Google Fiber having posted two job opening in Portland earlier this week, it is being widely speculated that Google may start offering its high-speed broadband service in the Portland area.

If Google's potential plans to set up shop in Portland materialize, the company's Fiber service may probably become available in the area as soon as 2015. The move would evidently mark a drastic change in the economic setting for Internet service providers (ISPs), such as Comcast, in Portland area.

While consumers stand to benefit from the prospective roll out of the Google Fiber service in the Portland area, Comcast - which is involved in an ongoing battle with Google - will be greatly affected by the arrival of Google Fiber in Portland.

With Comcast customers required to pay more than $200 per month for bundled service with cable, phone and Internet, the arrival of Google Fiber in Portland area will - as is the case in the two markets where Fiber is currently available - unfold the option of three tiers of broadband service, including free Internet with its basic plan.

Moreover, as pointed out by Jeffrey Burgan, Google's director of network engineering, Google Fiber also gives Netflix "free access" to its network.