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Fair Value Measurements (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2025
Fair Value Measurements [Abstract] |
Summary of Asset Impairment and Decommission Costs |
|  | For the three months |  | For the nine months
|  | ended September 30, |  | ended September 30,
|  | 2025 |  | 2024 |  | 2025 |  | 2024
|  | (in thousands)
Asset impairment (1) |  | $ | 20,013 |  | $ | 8,920 |  | $ | 91,054 |  | $ | 61,964
Write-off of carrying value of decommissioned towers |  |  | 186 |  |  | 698 |  |  | 6,105 |  |  | 12,242
Other (including tower and equipment decommission costs) |  |  | 123 |  |  | 3,052 |  |  | 5,419 |  |  | 13,722
Total asset impairment and decommission costs |  | $ | 20,322 |  | $ | 12,670 |  | $ | 102,578 |  | $ | 87,928
(1)Represents impairment charges resulting from the Company’s regular analysis of whether the anticipated future cash flows from certain towers are sufficient to recover the carrying value of the investment in those towers.

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