REVENUE RECOGNITION AND RECEIVABLES

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2022

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 grant revenue is disclosed in Note 9.

Timing of Revenue Recognition

Revenue accounted for in accordance with ASC 606 consisted of the following for the periods presented below.

	Three months ended				Nine months ended
	September 30, 2022		September 30, 2021		September 30, 2022		September 30, 2021
Services transferred over time	$	161,312	$	143,866	$	469,585	$	350,386
Goods and services transferred at a point in time		10,133		12,510		28,321		39,782
Total revenue accounted for under ASC 606		171,445		156,376		497,906		390,168

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 includes certain long term fixed business and carrier service customer contracts. Contract liabilities are recorded in advanced payments and deposits and other liabilities 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”) and subsequently entered into amendments in August 2020, May 2021 and August 2022 (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 Company allocated the transaction price of the FirstNet Agreement 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. 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.

The Company has certain Carrier Services roaming agreements that contain stand-ready performance obligations and management allocates transaction value to performance obligations based on the standalone selling price. The standalone selling price is the estimated price the Company would charge for the good or service with similar customers in similar circumstances. Management determined the performance obligations were obligations to make the service continuously available and will recognize revenue evenly over the service period.

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

	September 30, 2022		December 31, 2021			$ Change	% Change
Contract asset – current	$	3,465	$	4,805	$	(1,340)	(28)	%
Contract asset – noncurrent		1,095		900		195	22	%
Contract liability – current		(26,519)		(25,332)		(1,187)	(5)	%
Contract liability – noncurrent		(74,260)		(81,391)		7,131	9	%
Net contract liability	$	(96,219)	$	(101,018)	$	4,799	5	%

The contract asset – current is included in prepayments and other current assets and the contract asset – noncurrent is included in other assets on the Company’s balance sheet. The contract liability – current is included in advance payments and deposits and the contract liability – noncurrent is included in other liabilities on the Company’s balance sheet. 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 nine months ended September 30, 2022, the Company recognized revenue of $27.0 million related to its December 31, 2021 contract liability and amortized $2.5 million of the December 31, 2021 contract asset into revenue.

Contract Acquisition Costs

The September 30, 2022 balance sheet includes contract acquisition costs of $6.9 million in other assets. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022, the Company amortized $0.9 million and $2.5 million, respectively, of contract acquisition costs. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021, the Company amortized $1.4 million and $2.6 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 contracts, which include a promotional discount, Managed Services contracts, and the Company’s Carrier Services construction and service contracts. The transaction price allocated to unsatisfied performance obligations was $313 million and $369 million at September 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021, respectively. The Company expects to satisfy approximately 51% of the remaining performance obligations and recognize the transaction price within 24 months and the remainder thereafter.

The Company has certain Mobility, Fixed, and Carrier Services contracts where the transaction price is allocated to remaining performance obligations. However, the Company omits these contracts from its disclosure by applying the right to invoice, one year or less, and wholly unsatisfied performance obligation practical expedients.

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 Renewable Energy and Managed Services revenue. This disaggregation of revenue depicts how the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows are affected by economic factors.

Receivables

The Company records an estimate of future credit losses in conjunction with the revenue transaction based on the information available including historical experience and management’s expectations of future conditions. Those estimates will be 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.

At September 30, 2022, the Company had gross accounts receivable of $137.0 million, an allowance for credit losses of $16.1 million and a receivable under the FirstNet Agreement totaling $48.2 million of which $4.8 million was current and $43.4 million was long-term. At December 31, 2021, the Company had gross accounts receivable of $131.4 million, an allowance for credit losses of $13.9 million and a receivable under the FirstNet Agreement totaling $43.8 million, of which $4.1 million was current and $39.7 million was long-term. 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:

	Nine months ended September 30, 2022		Nine months ended September 30, 2021
Balance at beginning of period	$	13,885	$	12,121
Current period provision for expected losses		4,969		3,303
Write-offs charged against the allowance		(3,083)		(1,422)
Recoveries collected		326		320
Balance at end of period	$	16,097	$	14,322