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REVENUE RECOGNITION AND RECEIVABLES
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2025
REVENUE RECOGNITION AND RECEIVABLES  
REVENUE RECOGNITION AND RECEIVABLES

3. REVENUE RECOGNITION AND RECEIVABLES

Revenue Accounted for in Accordance with Other Guidance

The Company records revenue in accordance with ASC 606 from contracts with customers and ASC 842 from lease agreements, as well as government grants. Lease revenue recognized under ASC 842 is disclosed in Note 4 and government support revenue is disclosed in Note 8.

Timing of Revenue Recognition

Revenue accounted for in accordance with ASC 606 consisted of the following for the periods presented below (in thousands):

Three months ended March 31, 2025

International

US

Telecom

Telecom

Total

Services transferred over time

$

89,516

$

68,705

$

158,221

Goods and services transferred at a point in time

3,512

2,906

6,418

Total revenue accounted for under ASC 606

$

93,028

$

71,611

$

164,639

Operating lease income

155

1,828

1,983

Government support revenue (1)

1,312

11,360

12,672

Total revenue

$

94,495

$

84,799

$

179,294

Three months ended March 31, 2024

International

US

Telecom

Telecom

Total

Services transferred over time

$

88,560

$

78,043

$

166,603

Goods and services transferred at a point in time

3,034

3,271

6,305

Total revenue accounted for under ASC 606

$

91,594

$

81,314

$

172,908

Operating lease income

72

2,034

2,106

Government support revenue (1)

1,393

10,387

11,780

Total revenue

$

93,059

$

93,735

$

186,794

(1)Revenue recognized from CAF II, USF and RDOF programs. Refer to Note 8.

Contract Assets and Liabilities

The Company recognizes contract assets and liabilities on its balance sheet. Contract assets represent unbilled amounts typically resulting from consumer Mobility contracts with both a multiyear service period and a promotional discount. In these contracts, the revenue recognized exceeds the amount billed to the customer. The current portion of the contract asset is recorded in prepayments and other current assets and the noncurrent portion is included in other assets on the Company’s balance sheets.

Contract liabilities consist of advance payments and billings in excess of revenue recognized. Mobility and Fixed revenue for postpaid customers is generally billed one month in advance and recognized over the period that the corresponding service is rendered to customers. To the extent the service is not provided by the reporting date the amount is recognized as a contract liability. Prepaid service, including Mobility services, sold to customers is recorded as deferred revenue prior to the commencement of services. Contract liabilities also include certain long term fixed business and carrier service customer contracts. The current portion of contract liabilities are recorded in advanced payments and deposits and the noncurrent portion is included in deferred revenue, long-term on the Company’s balance sheets.

In July 2019, the Company entered into a Network Build and Maintenance Agreement with AT&T Mobility, LLC (“AT&T”) that was subsequently amended through March 31, 2025 (the “FirstNet Agreement”). In connection with the FirstNet Agreement, the Company is building a portion of AT&T’s network for the First Responder Network Authority in or near the Company’s current operating areas in the western United States (the “FirstNet Transaction”). The FirstNet Transaction includes construction and service performance obligations. The current portion of receivables under this agreement is recorded in customer receivable and the long-term portion is recorded in customer receivable long-term on the Company’s balance sheet.

In May 2023, the Company amended its current roaming agreement and entered into a carrier management services agreement with Verizon Wireless (the “Verizon CMS Agreement”). The transaction includes service performance obligations under which revenue is recognized over time. The Company allocates the transaction price of these agreements to each performance obligation based on the relative standalone selling price of each performance obligation in the contract. The standalone selling price is the estimated price the Company would charge for the good or service in a separate transaction with similar customers in similar circumstances.

Contract assets and liabilities consisted of the following (amounts in thousands):

March 31, 2025

December 31, 2024

$ Change

% Change

Contract asset – current

$

3,774

$

3,920

$

(146)

(3.7)

%

Contract asset – noncurrent

4,090

5,368

(1,278)

(23.8)

%

Contract liability – current

(29,164)

(28,932)

(232)

0.8

%

Contract liability – noncurrent

(53,471)

(55,116)

1,645

(3.0)

%

Net contract liability

$

(74,771)

$

(74,760)

$

(11)

0.0

%

The Company’s net contract liability remained unchanged during the three months ended March 31, 2025. During the three months ended March 31, 2025, the Company recognized revenue of $18.3 million related to its December 31, 2024 contract liability and amortized $1.1 million of the December 31, 2024 contract asset to revenue.

Contract Acquisition Costs

The March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024 balance sheets include contract acquisition costs of $11.2 million and $10.7 million, respectively, in other assets. During the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company amortized $1.8 million and $1.6 million, respectively, of contract acquisition costs.

Remaining Performance Obligations

Remaining performance obligations represent the transaction price allocated to unsatisfied performance obligations of certain multiyear Mobility and Fixed communication services contracts, Managed Services contracts, and the Company’s Carrier Services construction and service contracts. The transaction price allocated to unsatisfied performance obligations was $595 million at March 31, 2025. The Company expects to satisfy approximately 43% of the remaining performance obligations and recognize the transaction price within 24 months and approximately $60 million annually from 2027 through 2032. The Company omits performance obligations with a duration of one year or less and variable consideration under the right to invoice or wholly unsatisfied performance obligation practical expedients from this disclosure.

Disaggregation

The Company's revenue is presented on a disaggregated basis in Note 12 based on an evaluation of disclosures outside the financial statements, information regularly reviewed by the chief operating decision makers for evaluating the financial performance of operating segments and other information that is used for performance evaluation and

resource allocations. This includes revenue from Communication Services, Construction, and Other revenue. Communication Services revenue is further disaggregated into business and consumer Mobility, business and consumer Fixed, Carrier Services, and Other services. Other revenue is further disaggregated into Managed Services revenue.

Receivables

The Company records an estimate of future credit losses in conjunction with revenue transactions based on the information available including historical experience and management’s expectations of future conditions. Those estimates are updated as additional information becomes available. The Company’s allowance for uncollectible accounts receivable is based on management’s assessment of the collectability of assets pooled together with similar risk characteristics.

The Company had gross accounts receivables of $99.9 million and $98.8 million as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively. The Company also recorded allowances for credit losses against these receivables of $14.3 million and $15.1 million as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively.

In addition, the Company has also recorded a receivable under the FirstNet Agreement totaling $48.0 million as of March 31, 2025 of which $7.7 million was current and $40.3 million was long-term and had a receivable under that same agreement of $49.0 million as of December 31, 2024, of which $8.0 million was current and $41.0 million was long-term. As of March 31, 2025, the Company has recorded $44.2 million of receivables under certain government support agreements which include $32.3 million under the Replace and Remove Program and $11.9 million related to the Company’s participation in other government support programs. As of December 31, 2024, the Company had recorded $50.5 million of receivables under certain government support agreements which included $37.7 million under the Replace and Remove Program and $12.8 million under the Company’s participation in other government support programs (refer to Note 8).

The Company monitors receivables through the use of historical operating data adjusted for the expectation of future performance as appropriate. Activity in the allowance for credit losses is below (in thousands):

Three months ended

    

March 31, 2025

    

March 31, 2024

Balance at beginning of period

 

$

15,132

$

16,362

Current period provision for expected losses

 

1,854

1,322

Write-offs charged against the allowance

 

(2,887)

(903)

Recoveries collected

207

83

Balance at end of period

$

14,306

$

16,864