Revenue Recognition (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2018

Revenue from Contract with Customer [Abstract]

Disaggregation of Revenue

The Company earns revenue primarily through the sale of our wireless telecommunications services, wireless equipment, and business, residential, and enterprise cable and wireline services that include video, internet, voice, and data services as follows:

(in thousands)	Wireless			Cable			Wireline			Consolidated
Wireless service	$	89,760		$	—		$	—		$	89,760
Wireless equipment	17,374			—			—			17,374
Business, residential and enterprise	—			29,131			10,691			39,822
Tower	2,896			1,046			5,665			9,607
Other	368			1,534			3,351			5,253
Total revenue	110,398			31,711			19,707			161,816
Internal revenues	(1,239		)	(1,031		)	(7,814		)	(10,084		)
Total operating revenue	$	109,159		$	30,680		$	11,893		$	151,732

Schedule of New Accounting Pronouncements and Changes in Accounting Principles

The cumulative effect of the changes made to our consolidated January 1, 2018 balance sheet for the adoption of the new revenue standard were as follows:

(in thousands)	Balance at December 31, 2017		Adjustments due to Topic 606			Balance at January 1, 2018
Assets
Prepaid expenses and other	$	17,111	$	36,577		$	53,688
Deferred charges and other	13,690		16,107			29,797
Liabilities
Advanced billing and customer deposits	$	21,153	$	(14,302	)	$	6,851
Deferred income taxes	100,879		18,151			119,030
Other long-term liabilities	15,293		(1,200		)	14,093
Retained earnings	297,205		50,035			347,240

In accordance with the new revenue standard requirements, the disclosure of the impact of adoption on our consolidated income statement and balance sheet was as follows:

	Three Months Ended March 31, 2018
(in thousands)	As Reported		Balances without Adoption of Topic 606		Effect of Change Higher/(Lower)
Operating revenues	$	151,732	$	155,871	$	(4,139	)
Operating expenses:
Cost of services	49,342		49,199		143
Cost of goods sold	15,805		6,118		9,687
Selling, general and administrative	28,750		42,968		(14,218		)

	Three Months Ended March 31, 2018
(in thousands)	As Reported	Balances without Adoption of Topic 606	Effect of Change Higher/(Lower)
Assets
Prepaid expenses and other	64,200	27,086	37,114
Deferred charges and other	33,934	18,115	15,819
Liabilities
Deferred income taxes	115,809	97,591	18,218
Advanced billing and customer deposits	6,919	21,221	(14,302	)
Other long-term liabilities	13,787	14,987	(1,200	)
Retained earnings	352,069	301,852	50,217