−Removed: Our property, plant and equipment consists principally of fiber-optic and metallic cables, high-speed transport equipment, electronics, switches, routers, cable landing stations, central office equipment, land and buildings related to our operations.
+Added: Our property, plant and equipment consists principally of fiber-optic and metallic cables, high-speed transport equipment, electronics, switches, routers, gateway and transmission facilities, central office equipment, land and buildings related to our operations.
Our gross property, plant and equipment consisted of the following components:
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(2) Central office and other network electronics consists of circuit and packet switches, routers, transmission electronics and electronics providing service to customers.
−Removed: (3) Support assets consist of buildings, cable landing stations, data centers, computers and other administrative and support equipment.
+Added: (3) Support assets consist of buildings, data centers, computers and other administrative and support equipment.
(4) Construction in progress includes inventory held for construction and property of the aforementioned categories that is under construction and has not yet been placed in service.
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We own a substantial portion of our telecommunications equipment required for our business.
−Removed: However, we also lease from third parties certain facilities, plant and equipment under various finance and operating lease arrangements when the leasing arrangements are more favorable to us than owning the assets.
−Removed: We also own and lease administrative offices in major metropolitan locations both in the United States and internationally, and own or lease domestic or overseas cable landing stations related to undersea and terrestrial cable systems.
+Added: However, we also lease from third parties certain facilities, plant and equipment under various finance and operating lease arrangements.
+Added: We also own or lease administrative offices in major metropolitan locations both in the United States and internationally.
Substantially all of our network electronics equipment is located in buildings or on land that we own or lease, typically within our local service area.
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Compared sentence by sentence after normalising whitespace, quotation marks, case and digits, so re-formatting and restated figures do not read as changed language. Wording changes appear as one removal and one addition. The current filing and the prior one are authoritative.