CenturyLink gave an overview of its proposed economic cost model...
CenturyLink gave an overview of its proposed economic cost model for Colorado’s telecom overhaul, in a presentation Tuesday to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission. It’s “a collection of processes that take current demand and geographic data, overlaid with engineering and…
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economic principles, to generate an efficient greenfield forward-looking network design,” the company said. The model would be “the basis of an estimate of the least-cost investment needed to establish the cost of today’s wireline voice network,” CenturyLink said. The presentation was offered as part of a multi-day set of hearings before the PUC on how best to reform the state’s high-cost fund and deregulate as deemed necessary. CenturyLink framed the model in terms of efficiency, geography, the types of technology utilized and various other factors at play in the state’s ongoing debate. The slides of the presentation showcased mapping as well as some of the formulas CenturyLink proposes.