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Amount of consideration transferred, consisting of acquisition-date fair value of assets transferred by the acquirer, liabilities incurred by the acquirer, and equity interest issued by the acquirer.

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Acquisition and Joint Venture Transactions (Details) $ / shares in Units, € in Millions, $ in Millions						3 Months Ended		7 Months Ended	9 Months Ended
	May 16, 2016 EUR (€) shares	May 16, 2016 USD ($) shares	Feb. 11, 2016 EUR (€)	Feb. 11, 2016 USD ($)	Jun. 03, 2015 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2016 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2015 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2015 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2016 EUR (€)	Sep. 30, 2016 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2015 USD ($)	Jul. 01, 2016 shares	May 16, 2016 £ / shares	May 16, 2016 $ / shares	Feb. 15, 2016 EUR (€)	Feb. 15, 2016 USD ($)
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Revenues						$ 5,207.2	$ 4,597.4			$ 14,869.3	$ 13,680.8
Net earnings (loss)						(205.1)	140.6			(468.7)	(791.0)
Vodafone Joint Venture [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Ownership interest															50.00%	50.00%
Ownership interest by co-venturer															50.00%	50.00%
Dutch Joint Venture [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Ownership interest															50.00%	50.00%
Equalization payment expected															€ 1,000.0	$ 1,100.0
Viking Co NV [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Ownership percentage by parent			50.00%	50.00%
CWC [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Special dividend issuable at closing (in dollars per share) \| (per share)													£ 0.03	$ 0.043098
Special dividend		$ 193.8
Consideration transferred		$ 4,683.9
Direct acquisition costs \| €	€ 117.0
Revenues						568.0				853.4
Net earnings (loss)						(11.6)				(56.4)
CWC [Member] \| Customer Relationships [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Weighted average useful life of intangible assets	8 years	8 years
BASE [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Direct acquisition costs \| €			€ 17.1						€ 7.1
Revenues						159.8				416.0
Net earnings (loss)						(3.0)				(21.8)
BASE [Member] \| Telenet [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Consideration transferred			1,321.9	$ 1,497.7
Liabilities incurred			€ 1,000.0	$ 1,100.0
BASE [Member] \| Mobile Spectrum [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Weighted average useful life of intangible assets			11 years	11 years
BASE [Member] \| Trademarks [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Weighted average useful life of intangible assets			20 years	20 years
BASE [Member] \| Customer Relationships [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Weighted average useful life of intangible assets			7 years	7 years
Choice Acquisition [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Weighted average useful life of intangible assets					10 years
Direct acquisition costs								$ 8.5
Choice Acquisition [Member] \| Parent Company [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Consideration transferred					$ 10.5
Ownership percentage by parent					60.00%
Choice Acquisition [Member] \| Searchlight [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Consideration transferred					$ 6.8
Ownership percentage by parent					40.00%
Percentage of voting interests acquired					100.00%
Expected consideration transfered					$ 276.4
Choice Acquisition [Member] \| Liberty Puerto Rico [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Liabilities incurred					$ 259.1
Liberty Global Group [Member] \| Dutch Joint Venture [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Ownership interest															50.00%	50.00%
LiLAC Group [Member] \| CWC [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Inter-group interest distributed (in shares) \| shares												117,425,359
Common Class A [Member] \| Liberty Global Group [Member] \| CWC [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Equity interest (in shares) \| shares	31,607,008	31,607,008
Equity consideration		$ 1,167.2
Share price (in dollars per share) \| $ / shares														36.93
Common Class A [Member] \| LiLAC Group [Member] \| CWC [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Equity interest (in shares) \| shares	3,648,513	3,648,513
Equity consideration		$ 144.1
Share price (in dollars per share) \| $ / shares														39.50
Common Class C [Member] \| CWC [Member] \| Cable & Wireless Communications Limited (CWC) [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Equity interest (in shares) \| shares	4,433,222,313	4,433,222,313
Common Class C [Member] \| Liberty Global Group [Member] \| CWC [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Equity interest (in shares) \| shares	77,379,774	77,379,774
Equity consideration		$ 2,803.5
Share price (in dollars per share) \| $ / shares														36.23
Common Class C [Member] \| LiLAC Group [Member] \| CWC [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Equity interest (in shares) \| shares	8,939,316	8,939,316
Equity consideration		$ 375.3
Share price (in dollars per share) \| $ / shares														$ 41.98
Dutch JV Entities [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Net loss from assets held for sale included on statement of operations						$ 166.8
Disposal Group, Held-for-sale, Not Discontinued Operations [Member] \| Dutch JV Entities [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Net loss from assets held for sale included on statement of operations							$ 118.8			$ 426.3	$ 286.6