Lumen Seeks COLR Relief in Utah
Lumen wants to shed carrier of last resort (COLR) duties in Utah, in whole or at least in part, it said in a Wednesday petition at the Utah Public Service Commission (docket 23-049-01). Lumen isn't seeking relief from discontinuance rules…
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to end services for existing customers, it said. "Rather, on a forward-looking basis, this petition seeks relief from the obligation to provide voice service to every new customer location regardless of the cost of service." Utah doesn't provide high-cost support to Lumen and the federal government stopped giving it federal USF support last year, the carrier noted. "With no supportive funding for the COLR obligations in CenturyLink’s service territory, either from the federal government or the State of Utah, the company should not be obligated to be a COLR.” If the PSC wants to keep COLR obligations in certain locations, it should let Lumen collect state USF support for those places, it said. Effective competition exists throughout the company's territory, claimed Lumen: Competitors can “provide functionally equivalent or suitable services.”