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Wireless Licenses, Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets
9 Months Ended
Sep. 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 September 30,

At December 31,

(dollars in millions)
2018

2017

Wireless licenses
$
94,006

$
88,417



During the nine months ended September 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 September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, approximately $11.1 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 $0.4 billion of capitalized interest on wireless licenses for both the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017.

The average remaining renewal period for our wireless licenses portfolio was 4.8 years as of September 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 September 30, 2018
$
18,397

 
$
3,869

 
$
6,934

 
$
29,200



During the nine months ended September 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 statement of income.

Other Intangible Assets
The following table displays the composition of Other intangible assets, net:
 
At September 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

 
$
(945
)
 
$
2,678

 
$
3,621

 
$
(691
)
 
$
2,930

Non-network internal-use software (3 to 7 years)
18,901

 
(13,371
)
 
5,530

 
18,010

 
(12,374
)
 
5,636

Other (2 to 25 years)
2,484

 
(961
)
 
1,523

 
2,474

 
(793
)
 
1,681

Total
$
25,008

 
$
(15,277
)
 
$
9,731

 
$
24,105

 
$
(13,858
)
 
$
10,247



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

 
Nine Months Ended

(dollars in millions)
September 30,

 
September 30,

2018
$
557

 
$
1,648

2017
536

 
1,473



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

Remainder of 2018
$
557

2019
2,027

2020
1,692

2021
1,400

2022
1,149

2023
871