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Related Party Transaction

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Related Party Transaction
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2015
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party Transaction
Related Party Transaction
ACS was a related party for financial statement reporting purposes through the date of the Wireless Acquisition on February 2, 2015. Included in our related party disclosures were ACS' provision to us of local service lines and network capacity in locations where we do not have our own facilities, our provision to ACS of wholesale wireless services for their use of our network to sell services to their respective retail customers, and our receipt of ACS' high cost support from USF for its wireless customers. For the period January 1, 2015 to February 2, 2015, we paid ACS $6.2 million and received $8.1 million in payments from ACS. For the six months ended June 30, 2014, we paid $32.7 million and received $20.1 million in payments from ACS. We also have long term capacity exchange agreements with ACS for which no money is exchanged.