Lumen, Ore. PUC Staff Close to Settlement on Price Plan

The Oregon Public Utility Commission should extend a price plan for Lumen’s CenturyLink through Sept. 28 to give parties more time to negotiate an agreement for a successor plan, said the carrier, PUC staff and other parties in docket UM 1908. The PUC last week rejected Lumen’s challenge to an October decision in the same proceeding (see 2303220050). The parties held settlement talks Friday and “agreed that CenturyLink had made a meaningful settlement proposal that merits further investigation and discussion,” Lumen said in a joint motion Monday. Chief Administrative Law Judge Nolan Moser agreed to the three-month extension in an order Tuesday.