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CC Holdings GS V LLC – ‘10-Q’ for 6/30/17 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On: Monday, 8/7/17, at 4:41pm ET · For: 6/30/17 · Accession #: 1574291-17-10 · File #: 333-187970

  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size

 8/07/17  CC Holdings GS V LLC              10-Q        6/30/17   39:1.7M

Quarterly Report — Form 10-Q — Sect. 13 / 15(d) – SEA’34
Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 10-Q        Quarterly Report                                    HTML    227K 
 2: EX-31.1     Certification of CEO (302)                          HTML     21K 
 3: EX-31.2     Certification of CFO (302)                          HTML     21K 
 4: EX-32.1     Certification of CEO and CFO (906)                  HTML     17K 
11: R1          Document and Entity Information                     HTML     36K 
12: R2          Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet                HTML     81K 
13: R3          Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet Parenthetical  HTML     14K 
                (Parentheticals)                                                 
14: R4          Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations      HTML     49K 
15: R5          Condensed Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows      HTML     61K 
16: R6          Condensed Consolidated Statement of Equity          HTML     29K 
17: R7          General                                             HTML     24K 
18: R8          Summary of Significant Accounting Policies          HTML     19K 
19: R9          Debt and Other Obligations                          HTML     32K 
20: R10         Related Party Transactions                          HTML     23K 
21: R11         Income Taxes                                        HTML     18K 
22: R12         Fair Values                                         HTML     36K 
23: R13         Commitments and Contingencies                       HTML     18K 
24: R14         Supplemental Cash Flow Information (Notes)          HTML     21K 
25: R15         Guarantor Subsidiaries (Notes)                      HTML     17K 
26: R16         Summary of Significant Accounting Policies          HTML     18K 
                (Policies)                                                       
27: R17         Debt and Other Obligations (Tables)                 HTML     31K 
28: R18         Fair Value Disclosures (Tables)                     HTML     33K 
29: R19         Supplemental Cash Flow Information (Tables)         HTML     15K 
30: R20         General Business (Details)                          HTML     16K 
31: R21         Debt and Other Obligations (Indebtedness)           HTML     25K 
                (Details)                                                        
32: R22         Debt and Other Obligations (Components of Interest  HTML     21K 
                Expense and Amortization of Deferred Financing                   
                Costs) (Details)                                                 
33: R23         Related Party Transactions (Details)                HTML     27K 
34: R24         Fair Value Disclosures (Estimated Fair Values and   HTML     29K 
                Carrying Amounts of Assets and Liabilities)                      
                (Details)                                                        
35: R25         Commitments and Contingencies Tower count as a      HTML     16K 
                percentage of total towers (Details)                             
36: R26         Supplemental Cash Flow Information (Details)        HTML     14K 
38: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML     61K 
37: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX     29K 
 5: EX-101.INS  XBRL Instance -- cci-20170630                        XML    309K 
 7: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- cci-20170630_cal                XML     92K 
 8: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- cci-20170630_def                 XML    258K 
 9: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- cci-20170630_lab                      XML    466K 
10: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- cci-20170630_pre               XML    296K 
 6: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- cci-20170630                          XSD     72K 
39: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0001574291-17-000010-xbrl      Zip     63K

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CC Holdings GS V LLC – ‘10-Q’ for 6/30/17 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

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