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TRADE ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE, NET | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2012
TRADE ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE, NET |
4. | TRADE ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE, NET
Trade accounts receivable, net consisted of the following:
|  | December 31, 2012 |  |  | December 31, 2011 |
Trade accounts receivable |  |  | 1,015 |  |  |  | 1,061 |
Provision for doubtful accounts |  |  | (10 | ) |  |  | (15 | )
Total |  |  | 1,005 |  |  |  | 1,046 |
Bad debt expense in 2012, 2011, and 2010 was $1 million, $1 million and $1 million respectively. In 2012 none of the customers represented over 10% of consolidated net revenues. In 2011 and 2010 one customer, the Nokia group of companies, represented 10.4% and 13.9% of consolidated net revenues, respectively. The Company enters into factoring transactions to accelerate the realization in cash of some trade accounts receivable within ST-Ericsson. As at December 31, 2012, $127 million of trade accounts receivable were sold without recourse. Such factoring transactions totaled $1,143 million for the year 2012, with a financial cost totaling $4 million reported on the line “Interest expense, net” on the consolidated statement of income for the year ended December 31, 2012.

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