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Fair Value Measurements (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2021
Fair Value Measurements [Abstract] |
Summary of Asset Impairment and Decommission Costs |
|  | For the three months
|  | ended March 31,
|  | 2021 |  | 2020
Asset impairment (1) |  | $ | 3,156 |  | $ | 11,009
Write-off of carrying value of decommissioned towers |  |  | 1,327 |  |  | 2,699
Other (including third party decommission costs) |  |  | 420 |  |  | 647
Total asset impairment and decommission costs |  | $ | 4,903 |  | $ | 14,355
(1)Represents impairment charges resulting from the Company’s regular analysis of whether the future cash flows from certain towers are adequate to recover the carrying value of the investment in those towers.

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