Intangible Assets (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2015

Licenses

Licenses

Licenses
(Dollars in thousands)
Balance December 31, 2014			$	1,443,438
	Acquisitions (1)			345,656
	Exchanges (2)			43,485
	Other			1,482
Balance September 30, 2015			$	1,834,061
(1)		Amount includes payments totaling $338.3 million made by Advantage Spectrum to the FCC for licenses in which it was the provisional winning bidder in Auction 97.  See Note 6 — Acquisitions, Divestitures and Exchanges, and Note 10 — Variable Interest Entities for further information.
(2)		Amount represents licenses received in the March 2015 PCS license exchange. See Note 6 — Acquisitions, Divestitures and Exchanges for further information.  Licenses disposed of in this exchange and the exchange that closed in July 2015 were previously removed from the Licenses balance and reflected in Assets held for sale in the Consolidated Balance Sheet as of December 31, 2014.