Arrangements with Variable Interest Entities and Joint Ventures (Tables)

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2011

Arrangements with Variable Interest Entities and Joint Ventures [Abstract]

Schedule of Variable Interest Entities

The aggregate carrying amount and classification of the significant assets of Savary Island, excluding intercompany accounts and transactions, as of June 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010 are presented in the following table below (in thousands). There were no liabilities (other than intercompany liabilities) of Savary Island as of June 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010:

	June 30, 2011		December 31, 2010
Assets
Cash and cash equivalents	$	8,308	$	5,250
Wireless licenses	129,754		156,055
Assets held for sale (1)	$	26,301	$	—
Total Assets	$	164,363	$	161,305

(1)    Represents the carrying value of wireless licenses to be assigned and transferred to T-Mobile and its affiliates at the closing under the license exchange agreement discussed in Note 9, "Significant Acquisitions and Other Transactions."

Redeemable Noncontrolling Interest

The following table provides a summary of the changes in value of the Company's redeemable non-controlling interests (in thousands):

	Six Months Ended June 30,
	2011			2010
Beginning balance, January 1	$	104,788		$	71,632
Purchase of membership units in LCW Wireless (1)	—			(20,973		)
Accretion of redeemable non-controlling interests, before tax	14,796			2,503
Other	(524		)	—
Ending balance, June 30	$	119,060		$	53,162

(1)    On March 30, 2010, Cricket acquired an additional 23.9% membership interest in LCW Wireless, LLC ("LCW Wireless") from CSM Wireless, LLC (“CSM”) following CSM’s exercise of its option to sell its interest in LCW Wireless to Cricket for $21.0 million, which increased Cricket’s non-controlling membership interest in LCW Wireless to 94.6%. Cricket subsequently acquired the remaining membership interests in LCW Wireless in August 2010, and LCW Wireless merged with and into Cricket in February 2011, with Cricket as the surviving entity.