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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Percentage of voting equity interests acquired at the acquisition date in the business combination.

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Price of a single share of a number of saleable stocks paid or offered to be paid in a business combination.

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Amount of consideration transferred, consisting of acquisition-date fair value of assets transferred by the acquirer, liabilities incurred by the acquirer, and equity interest issued by the acquirer.

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The percentage of ownership of common stock or equity participation in the investee accounted for under the equity method of accounting.

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Acquisitions and Dispositions (Narrative) (Details) SFr / shares in Units, $ / shares in Units, $ in Millions, SFr in Billions				3 Months Ended
	Nov. 11, 2020 CHF (SFr) SFr / shares	Nov. 11, 2020 USD ($)	May 07, 2020	Mar. 31, 2021 USD ($)	Apr. 30, 2021	Feb. 28, 2021	Nov. 11, 2020 $ / shares
U.K. J.V.
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Termination rights period			24 months
Extended period			6 months
Ownership percentage			50.00%
Telefonica
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Co-venturer ownership percentage			50.00%			50.00%
Sunrise Acquisition
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Share price (in dollars per share) \| (per share)	SFr 110						$ 120
Consideration transferred	SFr 5.0	$ 5,400.0
Percentage of shares tendered				99.20%
Recorded liability				$ 41.2
Sunrise Acquisition \| Subsequent Event
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Interest acquired					0.80%