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Acquisitions (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2014
Acquisitions [Abstract] |
Schedule Of Acquisition Capital Expenditures |
|  | For the three months |  | For the nine months
|  | ended September 30, |  | ended September 30,
|  | 2014 |  | 2013 |  | 2014 |  | 2013
|  | (in thousands)
Towers and related intangible assets |  | $ | 71,688 |  | $ | 80,326 |  | $ | 1,019,733 |  | $ | 311,191
Ground lease buyouts (1) |  |  | 9,586 |  |  | 11,320 |  |  | 29,015 |  |  | 35,864
Total cash acquisition capital expenditures |  | $ | 81,274 |  | $ | 91,646 |  | $ | 1,048,748 |  | $ | 347,055
| (1) |  | In addition, the Company paid $2.7 million and $2.8 million for ground lease extensions and term easements during the three months ended September 30, 2014 and 2013, respectively, and $7.8 million and $7.6 million for ground lease extensions during the nine months ended September 30, 2014 and 2013, respectively. The Company recorded these amounts in prepaid rent on its Consolidated Balance Sheets.

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