4 Colo. Code Regs. § 723-2-2415
Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 20, October 25, 2024
Section 4 CCR 723-2-2415 - Separation of Colorado Intrastate Access Costs(a) Pursuant to § 40-15-108(1), C.R.S., each rural telecommunications provider who provides facilities or equipment for use by interstate customers or providers of telecommunications services shall separate all investments and expenses associated therewith according to applicable federal separation procedures and agreements. Prior to separating intrastate costs, each provider shall segregate its intrastate investments and expenses in accordance with rules 2400 through 2459.(b) Colorado intrastate access costs shall be separated from other jurisdictional costs using the separation procedures set forth at 47 C.F.R., Part 36, except as follows: (I) Common line allocation. As provided in subparagraphs (I)(A) and (B), the lesser of 26.5 percent or twice the subscriber line usage (SLU) as measured by the ratio of intrastate interexchange holding time minutes of use to total holding time minutes of use applicable to traffic originating and terminating in the study area, as defined in 47 C.F.R., Part 36, shall be allocated to Colorado switched access. This allocation factor shall be known as the "basic allocation factor". (A) The basic allocation factor specified in this subparagraph shall be modified by multiplying it by a weighting factor, which results in the "Colorado basic allocation factor". (i) For rural telecommunications providers reporting an average unseparated loop cost per working loop less than or equal to 115 percent of the national average for this cost, the weighting factor shall be one (1).(ii) For rural telecommunications providers reporting an average unseparated loop cost per working loop in excess of 115 percent of the national average for this cost, the weighting factor shall be 115 percent of the national average unseparated loop cost per working loop divided by the rural telecommunications provider's average unseparated loop cost per working loop.(B) The Colorado basic allocation factor shall be used for allocating: Subcategory 1.3 of Exchange Line Cable and Wire facilities, Category 4.13 of Exchange Line Circuit equipment excluding Wideband, and Category 1 of Other Information Origination/Termination Equipment.(C) Local switching allocations. Except as provided in this subparagraph, the allocation of Category 3 of Local Switching Equipment shall follow 47 C.F.R. § 36.125, using Colorado relative dial equipment minutes of use (DEM) for interLATA and intraLATA switched access. The Colorado DEM factors shall be weighted by a factor of 1.5. In no event shall the sum of all the interstate and the intrastate allocation factors be greater than 0.85. If the arithmetic sum exceeds 0.85, the intrastate allocation factor(s) shall be reduced accordingly.39 CR 21, November 10, 2016, effective 12/1/201640 CR 15, August 10, 2017, effective 9/1/201741 CR 03, February 10, 2018, effective 3/2/201842 CR 02, January 25, 2019, effective 2/14/201942 CR 07, April 10, 2019, effective 4/30/201943 CR 02, January 25, 2020, effective 2/14/202043 CR 17, September 10, 2020, effective 8/17/202044 CR 17, September 10, 2021, effective 8/11/202144 CR 18, September 25, 2021, effective 10/15/202145 CR 03, February 10, 2022, effective 12/29/202145 CR 01, January 10, 2022, effective 1/30/202246 CR 05, March 10, 2023, effective 3/30/2023