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<b><font style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">Note 3 —
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<b><font style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">Intangible
Assets</font></b>
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Our intangible assets consist of
<font style="white-space: nowrap">rights-of-way,</font>
easements, contracts and acquired customer relationships. We
amortize existing intangible assets and any costs incurred to
renew or extend the terms of existing intangible assets over the
contract term or estimated useful life, as applicable. Upon
adoption of the
<font style="white-space: nowrap">ASC 350-30,</font>
initial costs of acquiring new intangible assets are amortized
over the estimated useful life of the related tangible assets.
Any related renewals or extension costs of intangible assets are
expensed over the contract term using the straight-line method.
Amortization expense was $2,782,000 and $2,756,000 for the three
months ended June 30, 2010 and 2009, respectively.
Amortization expense was $5,562,000 and $5,507,000 for the six
months ended June 30, 2010 and 2009, respectively.
Estimated aggregate amortization expense remaining for 2010 and
each of the five succeeding fiscal years is approximately:
<i>2010 — </i>$5,505,000; <i>2011 —
</i>$11,064,000; <i>2012 — </i>$10,999,000;
<i>2013 — </i>$10,839,000; <i>2014 —
</i>$10,672,000; and <i>2015 — </i>$10,636,000.
Intangible assets consisted of the following (in thousands):
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<b>June 30,<br />
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<b>December 31,<br />
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<b>2010</b>
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<b>2009</b>
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<font style="white-space: nowrap">Rights-of-way</font>
and easements, at cost
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$
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116,599
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$
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116,122
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Less accumulated amortization for
<font style="white-space: nowrap">rights-of-way</font>
and easements
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(20,632
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)
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(18,204
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Contracts
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107,916
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107,916
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Less accumulated amortization for contracts
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(22,242
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(19,330
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Customer relationships
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4,864
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4,864
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Less accumulated amortization for customer relationships
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(1,148
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(992
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Intangible assets, net
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$
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185,357
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$
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190,376
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As of June 30, 2010 and December 31, 2009, the
weighted average amortization period for all of our intangible
assets was 20 years and 21 years, respectively. The
weighted average amortization period for our
<font style="white-space: nowrap">rights-of-way</font>
and easements, contracts and customer relationships was
22 years, 18 years and 12 years, respectively, as
of June 30, 2010. The weighted average amortization period
for our
<font style="white-space: nowrap">rights-of-way</font>
and easements, contracts and customer relationships was
23 years, 19 years and 13 years, respectively, as
of June 30, 2009.
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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Statement of Financial Accounting Standard (FAS)
-Number 142
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