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Wireless Licenses, Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2025
Goodwill and Intangible Assets Disclosure [Abstract] |
Wireless Licenses, Goodwill, and Other Intangible Assets |
Note 4. Wireless Licenses, Goodwill, and Other Intangible Assets
Wireless Licenses The carrying amounts of our Wireless licenses are as follows:
| At June 30, | At December 31,
(dollars in millions) | 2025 | 2024
Wireless licenses | $ | 156,820 |  | $ | 156,613 |
At June 30, 2025 and 2024, approximately $8.6 billion and $11.8 billion, respectively, of wireless licenses were under development for commercial service for which we were capitalizing interest costs. We recorded $234 million and $338 million of capitalized interest on wireless licenses for the six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively. During the six months ended June 30, 2025, we renewed various wireless licenses in accordance with FCC regulations. The average renewal period for these licenses was 10 years. Goodwill Changes in the carrying amount of Goodwill are as follows:
(dollars in millions) | Consumer |  | Business |  |  |  | Total
Balance at January 1, 2025(1) | $ | 21,177 |  |  | $ | 1,664 |  |  |  |  | $ | 22,841 |
Balance at June 30, 2025 | $ | 21,177 |  |  | $ | 1,664 |  |  |  |  | $ | 22,841 |
(1) Goodwill is net of accumulated impairment charges of $5.8 billion related to our Business reporting unit. Other Intangible Assets The following table displays the composition of Other intangible assets, net as well as the respective amortization periods:
| At June 30, 2025 |  | At December 31, 2024
(dollars in millions) | Gross Amount |  | Accumulated Amortization |  | Net Amount |  | Gross Amount |  | Accumulated Amortization |  | Net Amount
Customer lists (6 to 13 years) | $ | 4,245 |  |  | $ | (2,876) |  |  | $ | 1,369 |  |  | $ | 4,242 |  |  | $ | (2,629) |  |  | $ | 1,613 |
Non-network internal-use software (3 to 7 years) | 29,058 |  |  | (20,787) |  |  | 8,271 |  |  | 28,136 |  |  | (19,743) |  |  | 8,393 |
Other (4 to 25 years) | 2,674 |  |  | (1,679) |  |  | 995 |  |  | 2,664 |  |  | (1,541) |  |  | 1,123 |
Total | $ | 35,977 |  |  | $ | (25,342) |  |  | $ | 10,635 |  |  | $ | 35,042 |  |  | $ | (23,913) |  |  | $ | 11,129 |
The amortization expense for Other intangible assets was as follows:
| Three Months Ended |  | Six Months Ended
(dollars in millions) | June 30, |  | June 30,
2025 | $ | 754 |  |  | $ | 1,488 |
2024 | 706 |  |  | 1,404 |
The estimated future amortization expense for Other intangible assets for the remainder of the current year and next 5 years is as follows:
Years | (dollars in millions)
Remainder of 2025 | $ | 1,475 |
2026 | 2,738 |
2027 | 2,189 |
2028 | 1,683 |
2029 | 1,017 |
2030 | 761 |

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