text: Mr. Sayre, are you claiming that you and your group or Eugene actually laid new fiber to Portland and San Jose???  No, of course not.  The cost would be hundreds of millions.  Your links are almost certainly fibers leased from the companies that maintain the massive internet infrastructure.  Local politicians had nothing to do the the massive fiber build out that occurred from about 1995 to 2002.  Eugene rides on the backs of giants.