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Long-Term Debt and Revolving Promissory Note (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2015
Debt Disclosure [Abstract] |
Schedule of long-term debt, including unamortized discounts and premiums | Long-term debt, including unamortized premiums and discounts, unamortized debt issuance costs and note payable-affiliate, were as follows:
|  |  |  |  | As of December 31,
| Interest Rates |  | Maturities |  | 2015 |  | 2014
|  |  |  |  | (Dollars in millions)
Senior notes | 6.125% - 8.375% |  | 2016 - 2055 |  | $ | 7,229 |  |  | 7,311 |
Term loan | 2.180% |  | 2025 |  | 100 |  |  | — |
Capital lease and other obligations | Various |  | Various |  | 17 |  |  | 32 |
Unamortized premiums, net |  |  |  |  | 16 |  |  | 36 |
Unamortized debt issuance costs |  |  |  |  | (123 | ) |  | (110 | )
Total long-term debt |  |  |  |  | 7,239 |  |  | 7,269 |
Less current maturities |  |  |  |  | (242 | ) |  | (117 | )
Long-term debt, excluding current maturities |  |  |  |  | $ | 6,997 |  |  | 7,152 |
Note payable-affiliate | 6.758% |  | 2022 |  | $ | 855 |  |  | 796 |
Schedule of aggregate maturities of the entity's long-term debt (excluding unamortized premiums, discounts, and other) | Set forth below is the aggregate principal amount of our long-term debt (excluding unamortized premiums and discounts, net and unamortized debt issuance costs and other and excluding note payable-affiliate) maturing during the following years:
| (Dollars in millions)(1)
2016 | $ | 242 |
2017 | 503 |
2018 | 3 |
2019 | 1 |
2020 | — |
2021 and thereafter | 6,597 |
Total long-term debt | $ | 7,346 |
_______________________________________________________________________________ (1) Actual principal paid in all years may differ due to the possible future refinancing of outstanding debt or the issuance of new debt.
Schedule of amount of gross interest expense, net of capitalized interest and interest expense (income)-affiliates | Interest expense includes interest on long-term debt. The following table presents the amount of gross interest expense, net of capitalized interest and interest expense-affiliates, net:
| Years Ended December 31,
| 2015 |  | 2014 |  | 2013
| (Dollars in millions)
Interest expense: |  |  |  |  |
Gross interest expense | $ | 491 |  |  | 481 |  |  | 467 |
Capitalized interest | (18 | ) |  | (17 | ) |  | (17 | )
Total interest expense | $ | 473 |  |  | 464 |  |  | 450 |
Interest expense-affiliates, net | $ | 53 |  |  | 40 |  |  | 64 |

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