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Commitments and Contingencies (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2014
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract] |
Unrecorded Purchase Obligation | In the normal course of business, we have entered into agreements that commit our company to make cash payments in future periods with respect to programming contracts, network and connectivity commitments, purchases of customer premises and other equipment, non-cancelable operating leases and other items. The U.S. dollar equivalents of such commitments as of December 31, 2014 are presented below:
| Payments due during: |  |
| 2015 |  | 2016 |  | 2017 |  | 2018 |  | 2019 |  | Thereafter |  | Total
| in millions
Continuing operations: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Programming commitments | $ | 863.9 |  |  | $ | 785.4 |  |  | $ | 612.7 |  |  | $ | 528.0 |  |  | $ | 231.4 |  |  | $ | 2.0 |  |  | $ | 3,023.4 |
Network and connectivity commitments | 359.9 |  |  | 261.5 |  |  | 240.2 |  |  | 127.1 |  |  | 90.2 |  |  | 1,048.5 |  |  | 2,127.4 |
Purchase commitments | 827.8 |  |  | 119.4 |  |  | 62.9 |  |  | 10.1 |  |  | 4.0 |  |  | — |  |  | 1,024.2 |
Operating leases | 174.0 |  |  | 141.5 |  |  | 117.3 |  |  | 98.1 |  |  | 75.4 |  |  | 279.3 |  |  | 885.6 |
Other commitments | 350.2 |  |  | 198.7 |  |  | 150.1 |  |  | 90.0 |  |  | 39.2 |  |  | 48.2 |  |  | 876.4 |
Total (a) | $ | 2,575.8 |  |  | $ | 1,506.5 |  |  | $ | 1,183.2 |  |  | $ | 853.3 |  |  | $ | 440.2 |  |  | $ | 1,378.0 |  |  | $ | 7,937.0 |
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(a) | The commitments reflected in this table do not reflect any liabilities that are included in our December 31, 2014 consolidated balance sheet.

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of unconditional purchase obligations that are not recognized as a liability on the balance sheet, including the nature and significant terms of an unconditional purchase obligation; the amount of the fixed and determinable portion of the obligation as of the date of the latest balance sheet presented in the aggregate and, if determinable, for each of the five succeeding fiscal years; the nature of any variable components of the obligation; the amount purchased under the obligation (for example, the take-or-pay or throughput contract) for the reporting period; and may include the amount of imputed interest necessary to reduce the obligation to present value. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 440 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 2 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6394976&loc=d3e25287-109308 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 440 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 4 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6394976&loc=d3e25336-109308 + Details
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