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Contract assets and contract liabilities
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2021
Contract assets and contract liabilities  
Contract assets and contract liabilities

5. Contract assets and contract liabilities

The opening and closing balances of our contract asset, net, contract liability, net balances from contracts with customers for the three months ended March 31, 2021 were as follows:

Contract

Contract

    

Assets, Net

    

Liabilities, Net

Balance at December 31, 2020

$

547

$

224,754

Balance at March 31, 2021 (1)

 

473

236,465

Change

$

(74)

$

11,711

(1)Excludes contract assets, net of $766 and contract liabilities, net of $1,990 classified as held for sale.

The current and non-current portions of our contract assets, net are included within prepaid expenses and other current assets and other assets, respectively, and current and non-current portions of our contract liabilities, net are included within deferred revenue and deferred revenue, net of current portion, respectively, in our condensed consolidated balance sheets, excluding amounts classified within assets and liabilities held for sale. Contract assets, net is generated from our Carrier Services and Legacy wholesale Wi-Fi contracts and the change in the contract assets, net balance includes activity related to amounts invoiced offset by revenue recognized from performance obligations satisfied in the current reporting period.

Contract liabilities are recorded when fees are collected, or we have an unconditional right to consideration (a receivable) in advance of delivery of goods or services. The change in contract liabilities, net balance is related to customer activity associated with each of our product offerings including the receipt of cash payments and the satisfaction of our performance obligations. Revenues for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively, include the following:

Three Months Ended

March 31, 

2021

2020

Amounts included in the beginning of period contract liability balance

$

28,348

$

24,970

Amounts associated with performance obligations satisfied in previous periods

13

As of March 31, 2021, the aggregate amount of the transaction price allocated to remaining service performance obligations for our Carrier Services contracts was $224,687. We expect to recognize this revenue as service is provided over the remaining contract

term. As of March 31, 2021, our Carrier Services contracts have a remaining duration of less than one year to approximately thirteen years.

Certain of our Legacy wholesale Wi-Fi contracts include variable consideration based on usage. This variable consideration has been excluded from the disclosure of remaining performance obligations. As of March 31, 2021, the aggregate amount of the transaction price allocated to remaining service performance obligations for certain of our Legacy wholesale Wi-Fi contracts with guaranteed minimum consideration was $5,139. We expect to recognize this revenue as service is provided over the remaining contract term. As of March 31, 2021, our Legacy wholesale Wi-Fi contracts have a remaining duration of less than one year to approximately thirteen years.

Information about remaining performance obligations that are part of a contract that has an original expected duration of one year or less have been excluded from the above, which primarily consists of network installations for our monthly service contracts.