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Wireless Licenses, Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2018
Goodwill and Intangible Assets Disclosure [Abstract]  
Wireless Licenses, Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets
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Wireless Licenses, Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets

Wireless Licenses
The carrying amount of Wireless licenses are as follows:
 
At June 30,

At December 31,

(dollars in millions)
2018

2017

Wireless licenses
$
93,855

$
88,417



During the six months ended June 30, 2018, we recorded approximately $4.5 billion of wireless licenses in connection with the Straight Path acquisition and $0.7 billion in connection with the NextLink acquisition. See Note 3 for additional information.

At June 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, approximately $11.5 billion and $8.8 billion, respectively, of wireless licenses were under development for commercial service for which we were capitalizing interest costs. We recorded approximately $0.3 billion and $0.2 billion of capitalized interest on wireless licenses during the six months ended June 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively.

The average remaining renewal period for our wireless licenses portfolio was 4.5 years as of June 30, 2018.

Goodwill
Changes in the carrying amount of Goodwill are as follows:
(dollars in millions)
Wireless

 
Wireline

 
Other

 
Total

Balance at January 1, 2018
$
18,397

 
$
3,955

 
$
6,820

 
$
29,172

Acquisitions (Note 3)

 
(82
)
 
225

 
143

Reclassifications, adjustments and other

 
(4
)
 
(111
)
 
(115
)
Balance at June 30, 2018
$
18,397

 
$
3,869

 
$
6,934

 
$
29,200



During the six months ended June 30, 2018, a goodwill impairment charge of $0.1 billion related to early stage development companies was recorded in Selling, general and administrative expense in our condensed consolidated statements of income.

Other Intangible Assets
The following table displays the composition of Other intangible assets, net:
 
At June 30, 2018
 
 
At December 31, 2017
 
(dollars in millions)
Gross
Amount

 
Accumulated
Amortization

 
Net
Amount

 
Gross
Amount

 
Accumulated
Amortization

 
Net
Amount

Customer lists (8 to 13 years)
$
3,623

 
$
(860
)
 
$
2,763

 
$
3,621

 
$
(691
)
 
$
2,930

Non-network internal-use software (3 to 7 years)
18,540

 
(13,017
)
 
5,523

 
18,010

 
(12,374
)
 
5,636

Other (2 to 25 years)
2,483

 
(908
)
 
1,575

 
2,474

 
(793
)
 
1,681

Total
$
24,646

 
$
(14,785
)
 
$
9,861

 
$
24,105

 
$
(13,858
)
 
$
10,247



The amortization expense for Other intangible assets was as follows: 
 
Three Months Ended

 
Six Months Ended

(dollars in millions)
June 30,

 
June 30,

2018
$
557

 
$
1,091

2017
485

 
937



The estimated future amortization expense for Other intangible assets is as follows:
Years
(dollars in millions)

Remainder of 2018
$
1,084

2019
1,927

2020
1,605

2021
1,326

2022
1,100

2023
827