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REVENUE (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2020
Revenue [abstract] |
Disclosure of performance obligations | The table below summarizes the nature of the various performance obligations in our contracts with customers and when we recognize performance on those obligations.
Performance obligations from contracts with customers | Timing of satisfaction of the performance obligation
Wireless airtime, data, and other services; television, telephony, Internet, and smart home monitoring services; network services; media subscriptions; and rental of equipment | As the service is provided (usually monthly)
Roaming, long-distance, and other optional or non-subscription services, and pay-per-use services | As the service is provided
Wireless devices and related equipment | Upon activation or purchase by the end customer
Installation services for Cable subscribers | When the services are performed
Advertising | When the advertising airs on our radio or television stations or is displayed on our digital properties
Subscriptions by television stations for subscriptions from cable and satellite providers | When the services are delivered to cable and satellite providers' subscribers (usually monthly)
Toronto Blue Jays' home game admission and concessions | When the related games are played during the baseball season and when goods are sold
Toronto Blue Jays revenue from the Major League Baseball Revenue Sharing Agreement, which redistributes funds between member clubs based on each club’s relative revenue, and other league revenue sharing | In the applicable period, when the amount is determinable
Radio and television broadcast agreements | When the related programs are aired
Sublicensing of program rights | Over the course of the applicable licence period
The table below shows the revenue we expect to recognize in the future related to unsatisfied or partially satisfied performance obligations as at December 31, 2020. The unsatisfied portion of the transaction price of the performance obligations relates to monthly services; we expect to recognize it over the next three to five years.
(In millions of dollars) | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | Thereafter | Total
Telecommunications service | 2,072 |  | 741 |  | 188 |  | 149 |  | 3,150 |
Explanation of significant changes in contract assets and contract liabilities | CONTRACT ASSETS Below is a summary of our contract assets from contracts with customers and the significant changes in those balances during the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019.
| Years ended December 31
(In millions of dollars) | 2020 | 2019
Balance, beginning of year | 1,791 |  | 1,587 |
Additions from new contracts with customers, net of terminations and renewals | 104 |  | 1,653 |
Amortization of contract assets to accounts receivable | (1,274) |  | (1,449) |
Balance, end of year | 621 |  | 1,791 |
CONTRACT LIABILITIES Below is a summary of our contract liabilities from contracts with customers and the significant changes in those balances during the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019.
| Years ended December 31
(In millions of dollars) | 2020 | 2019
Balance, beginning of year | 224 |  | 233 |
Revenue deferred in previous year and recognized as revenue in current year | (184) |  | (222) |
Net additions from contracts with customers | 365 |  | 213 |
Balance, end of year | 405 |  | 224 |
Disclosure of deferred commission costs assets | Below is a summary of the changes in the deferred commission cost assets recognized from the incremental costs incurred to obtain contracts with customers during the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019. The deferred commission cost assets are presented within other current assets (when they will be amortized into net income within twelve months of the date of the financial statements) or other long-term assets.
| Years ended December 31
(In millions of dollars) | 2020 | 2019
Balance, beginning of year | 305 |  | 296 |
Additions to deferred commission cost assets | 248 |  | 329 |
Amortization recognized on deferred commission cost assets | (291) |  | (320) |
Balance, end of year | 262 |  | 305 |
Disclosure of disaggregation of revenue from contracts with customers | DISAGGREGATION OF REVENUE
| Years ended December 31
(In millions of dollars) | 2020 | 2019
Wireless |  |
Service revenue | 6,579 |  | 7,156 |
Equipment revenue | 1,951 |  | 2,094 |
Total Wireless | 8,530 |  | 9,250 |
Cable |  |
Service revenue | 3,936 |  | 3,940 |
Equipment revenue | 10 |  | 14 |
Total Cable | 3,946 |  | 3,954 |
Total Media | 1,606 |  | 2,072 |
Corporate items and intercompany eliminations | (166) |  | (203) |
Total revenue | 13,916 |  | 15,073 |

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