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HOUSTON, Jan. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown Castle International Corp. (NYSE: CCI) announced today that the quarterly dividend on its 6.25% Convertible Preferred Stock will be paid on February 15, 2007 to holders of record on February 1, 2007. The dividend will be paid in cash at a rate of $0.781 per share of Preferred Stock.

Crown Castle engineers, deploys, owns and operates technologically advanced shared wireless infrastructure, including extensive networks of towers. Crown Castle offers significant wireless communications coverage to 91 of the top 100 US markets and to substantially all of the Australian population. Crown Castle owns, operates and manages over 22,000 and over 1,300 wireless communication sites in the US and Australia, respectively. For more information on Crown Castle, please visit http://www.crowncastle.com .

     Contacts:  W. Benjamin Moreland, CFO
                Jay Brown, Treasurer
                Crown Castle International Corp.
                713-570-3000


SOURCE  Crown Castle International Corp.
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    /CONTACT:  W. Benjamin Moreland, CFO, or Jay Brown, Treasurer, both of
Crown Castle International Corp., +1-713-570-3000/
    /Web site:  http://www.crowncastle.com /
    (CCI)

CO:  Crown Castle International Corp.
ST:  Texas
IN:  CPR TLS
SU:  DIV

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