Note 5 - Accounts Receivable

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2019

Notes to Financial Statements

Loans, Notes, Trade and Other Receivables Disclosure [Text Block]

5. ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE

Accounts receivable, net, consists of the following at

June 30, 2019

and

December 31, 2018:

	2019			2018
Retail customers	$	16,838		$	21,732
Wholesale carriers		5,831			9,315
Other		4,455			4,361
		27,124			35,408
Less: allowance for doubtful accounts		(4,653	)		(3,936	)
Accounts receivable, net	$	22,471		$	31,472

The following table presents the activity in the allowance for doubtful accounts for the

six

-month period ended

June 30, 2019,

which is associated entirely with the Company’s contracts with customers:

	2019
Balance at January 1	$	3,936
Provision for uncollectible accounts		(32	)
Charged to other accounts		1,253
Deductions		(504	)
Asset at June 30	$	4,653

USAC has issued funding commitment letters for all of the Company’s rural health care customer applications for Funding Year

2018

(

July 1, 2018

through

June 30, 2019).

Accounts receivable, net, associated with rural health care customers was

$2,816

and

$8,122

at

June 30, 2019

and

December 31, 2018,

respectively. Rural health care accounts are a component of the retail customers category in the above table.