Utah PSC Delays Lumen COLR Hearings Amid Talks

The Utah Public Service Commission delayed until Feb. 8 evidentiary and public witness hearings that were planned for this Wednesday on Lumen’s carrier of last resort relief petition, the PSC said Friday in docket 23-049-01. The PSC said it delayed the case after the Utah Rural Telecom Association reported it was talking with Lumen and Utah’s Division of Public Utilities and Office of Consumer Services on a resolution. The parties clashed on a definition of the terms “captive customers” and “functionally equivalent” in prehearing briefs and testimony earlier last week (see 2401260059).