Serving Area Sizing for Conversion Projects

Under the Serving Area Concept, the telephone distribution network is divided into discrete areas called serving areas. To economically balance the distribution and feeder costs required to serve new residential construction, serving areas are sized to include from 200 to 600 ultimate living units. In addition to its use for new residences, SAC is now being successfully applied to the rehabilitation of existing areas. The purpose of this paper is to present models of feeder network costs that will allow the cost/size relationships for these conversion projects to be quantified.