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| REVENUE RECOGNITION AND RECEIVABLES | 4. REVENUE RECOGNITION AND RECEIVABLES The Company records revenue in accordance with the FASB’s Accounting Standard Codification (“ASC”) Topic 606, “Revenue Recognition” (“ASC 606”), from contracts with customers and ASC Topic 842, “Leases” (“ASC 842”), from lease agreements, as well as government grants. Lease revenue recognized under ASC 842 is disclosed in Note 5 and government support revenue is disclosed in Note 9. Timing of Revenue Recognition Revenue recognized consisted of the following for the periods presented below (in thousands):
Contract Assets and Liabilities Contract assets and liabilities consisted of the following (amounts in thousands):
The decrease in the Company’s net contract liability was due to the timing of customer prepayments, contract billings, and recognition of deferred revenue. During the three months ended March 31, 2026, the Company recognized revenue of $16.4 million related to its December 31, 2025 contract liability and amortized $1.2 million of the December 31, 2025 contract asset to revenue. 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, 2026 and December 31, 2025 balance sheets include contract acquisition costs of $10.8 million and $11.2 million, respectively, in other assets. During the three months ended March 31, 2026 and March 31, 2025, the Company amortized $1.7 million and $1.8 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 $546 million at March 31, 2026. The Company expects to satisfy approximately 48% of the remaining performance obligations and recognize the transaction price within 24 months and axiy $60 million annually from 2028 through 2032. The Company omits performance obligations associated with a contract 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 13 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 $103.1 million and $96.2 million as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, respectively. The Company also recorded allowances for credit losses against these receivables of $16.8 million and $15.5 million as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, respectively. In addition, the Company also recorded a receivable under the Network Build and Maintenance Agreement with AT&T Mobility, LLC (“AT&T”) that was subsequently amended in May 2026 (the “FirstNet Agreement”) totaling $41.7 million as of March 31, 2026, of which $9.4 million was current and $32.3 million was long-term, and had a receivable under that same agreement of $43.9 million as of December 31, 2025, of which $8.8 million was current and $35.1 million was long-term. As of March 31, 2026, the Company had recorded $37.5 million of receivables under certain government support agreements, which included $22.0 million under the Replace and Remove Program (as defined below) and $15.5 million related to the Company’s participation in other government support programs. As of December 31, 2025, the Company had recorded $45.1 million of receivables under certain government support agreements, which included $31.9 million under the Replace and Remove Program and $13.3 million under the Company’s participation in other government support programs (refer to Note 9). 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):
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