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Commitments and Contingencies

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Commitments and Contingencies
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2014
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
Commitments and Contingencies
Commitments and Contingencies

Capital Leases as Lessee
We have a capital lease agreement for transponder capacity on Intelsat, Ltd.’s (“Intelsat”) Galaxy 18 spacecraft.  The Intelsat Galaxy 18 C-band and Ku-Band transponders are being leased over an expected term of 14 years.  At lease inception the present value of the lease payments, excluding telemetry, tracking and command services and back-up protection, was $98.6 million. We amended our transponder capacity lease agreement with Intelsat in October 2013 to lease additional transponder capacity on Intelsat's Galaxy 18 spacecraft with a term of 7 years. As a result, on January 1, 2014, we increased our existing capital lease asset and liability by $9.4 million.

A summary of future minimum capital lease payments follows (amounts in thousands):
Years ending December 31:
 
2014
$
6,718

2015
13,444

2016
13,454

2017
13,433

2018
13,440

2019 and thereafter
46,658

Total minimum lease payments
107,147

Less amount representing interest
26,855

Less current maturity of obligations under capital leases
7,813

Long-term obligations under capital leases, excluding current maturity
$
72,479



Tribal Mobility Fund I Grant
On February 28, 2014, the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") announced our winning bids in the Tribal Mobility Fund I auction for a $41.4 million grant to partially fund expansion of our 3G wireless network, or better, to locations in Alaska where we would not otherwise be able to construct within our return-on-investment requirements. We filed a long-form application with the FCC by their deadline of April 4, 2014, and this form must be reviewed for final approval, before the award can be issued.