CenturyLink has reorganized its local leadership and replaced longtime Denver general manager Scott Russell, the company confirmed Tuesday.

Penny Larson, its operations vice president for Colorado, now adds Denver to her responsibilities.

“It’s more of a realignment,” said Larson, who is based in Colorado Springs. “It improves our ability to deliver our new technologies and solutions. We will continue to invest in local resources, such as engineering technicians, retail outlets and related positions.”

Russell, who left CenturyLink at the end December, did not respond to a request for an interview.

He had been with Qwest before it was acquired by CenturyLink in 2011 and led the company’s effort to expand into gigabit-speed Internet and TV service in the Denver area. After the merger, however, Louisiana-based CenturyLink seemed to put fiber-Internet on the back burner.

But then in August, CenturyLink announced plans to turn Denver into a “Gig City,” offering 1 gigabit-per-second broadband service — about 100 times faster than the national average 10 megabit-per-second service.

At the time, Russell said gigabit would roll out to “a large percentage of the city” by early 2015.

On Tuesday, CenturyLink said its gigabit effort is available only to Denver residents and declined to say which neighborhoods can order it. The company said it plans an update this month.

A search on Century Link’s website shows the speedier service available in Washington Park, Park Hill and Glendale. One person even put together a CenturyLink Gigabit Coverage map to track availability.

In south Denver, CenturyLink offers a hybrid of fiber and traditional Internet service. In places like Highlands Ranch, CenturyLink built fiber to boxes, or nodes, centrally located in neighborhoods. Houses are then connected to that fiber via traditional means, like copper wiring. Internet speeds of up to 20 mbps are offered in these cities.

Many south metro customers can order CenturyLink’s Prism TV service, which is similar to cable with 100-plus channels for a monthly fee. Service began rolling out in 2013 and is available in Castle Rock, Castle Pines, Centennial, Highlands Ranch, Lone Tree, Parker, Sedalia and parts of Douglas County.

By the end of September, Cen turyLink had 229,000 TV customers nationwide, up 14,000 from the prior year. It also grew its Internet customers to 6.1 million.

But not everyone eagerly welcomed another choice.

The city of Castle Pines proposed a new ordinance last year to regulate TV service by penalizing companies with no franchise agreement. The city has agreements with Comcast, Xcel Energy and the electricity co-op IREA.

The City Council was expected to vote on the ordinance Tuesday night but tabled the measure after receiving a franchise application from Century Link.

CenturyLink doesn’t have a franchise agreement with Castle Pines, which became a city in 2008. The company’s agreement, which dates to 1998 and expires this year, is with Douglas County.

“We absolutely understand that cities want to regulate this,” said Jim Campbell, CenturyLink’s regional vice president for regulatory and legislative affairs. “We offer the same terms to all the cities.”

Local municipalities can charge up to 5 percent of gross revenues from the sale of TV service, according to federal law. That is how much Campbell says CenturyLink pays local municipalities.