We typically maintain our restricted cash balances for purchases and sales of certain investment securities and funding of certain deferred compensation benefit payments:


	September 30,				December 31,
	2020		2019		2019		2018
Cash and cash equivalents	$	9,758	$	6,588	$	12,130	$	5,204
Restricted cash in Other current assets	2		15		69		61
Restricted cash in Other Assets	89		179		96		135
Cash and Cash Equivalents and Restricted Cash	$	9,849	$	6,782	$	12,295	$	5,400


Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows	Nine months ended
	September 30,
Cash paid (received) during the period for:	2020		2019
Interest	$	6,661	$	6,938
Income taxes, net of refunds	306		420
Spectrum acquisitions	1,062		1,022

Other Noncash Investing and Financing Activities In connection with capital improvements and the acquisition of other productive assets, we negotiate favorable payment terms (referred to as vendor financing), which are reported as financing activities when paid. For the first nine months, we recorded vendor financing commitments related to capital investments of approximately $3,148 in 2020 and $1,917 in 2019.

Total vendor financing payables included in our September 30, 2020 consolidated balance sheet were approximately $3,252, with $1,474 due within one year (in “Accounts payable and accrued liabilities”) and the remainder predominantly due within two to three years (in “Other noncurrent liabilities”).

Debt Transactions At September 30, 2020, our total long-term debt obligations totaled $158,878. Our debt activity during the nine months ended September 30, 2020 primarily consisted of the following:

•Net borrowings of approximately $1,710 of debt under our commercial paper program during the first nine months.

•Entry into and draw on a $5,500 Term Loan Credit Agreement, with certain commercial banks and Bank of America, N.A., as lead agent, in April 2020, which was redeemed in May 2020 (originally due on December 31, 2020).

•Issuance of $16,545 of AT&T global notes due 2027 to 2060 in the second quarter.

•Issuance of €3,000 million global notes ($3,281 at issuance) due 2028 to 2038 in the second quarter.

•Redemption of $12,689 of AT&T global notes due 2020 to 2047 in the second quarter.

•Redemption of $1,800 under term loan credit agreements with certain banks in the second quarter.

•Redemption of $1,000 annual put reset securities issued by BellSouth in the second quarter.

•Redemption of $4,264 of AT&T, WarnerMedia and DIRECTV notes due 2022 in the third quarter.

•Redemption of $1,158 of AT&T and WarnerMedia global notes due 2022 to 2023 in the third quarter.

•Redemption of €2,250 of AT&T floating-rate notes due 2020 (approximately $2,637 at maturity) in the third quarter.

•Redemption of R$3,381 of Sky Serviços de Banda Larga Ltda. floating-rate private loan due 2021 (approximately $1,000 when issued in April 2018 and $638 at redemption due to strengthening of the U.S. dollar against Brazilian real) in the third quarter.

•Repurchases of $11,384 of AT&T global notes and subsidiary notes due 2021 to 2025 tendered for cash in the third quarter.

•Exchange of $17,677 of AT&T and subsidiary notes, due 2031 to 2058, for $1,459 of cash and $21,500 of three new series of AT&T global notes due 2053 to 2059 in the third quarter.