Crown Castle International Names New Chairman of the Board

May 23, 2002 at 6:01 PM EDT
HOUSTON, May 23, 2002 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Crown Castle International Corp. (NYSE: CCI) today announced J. Landis Martin has been named non-executive chairman of the board. He succeeds Crown Castle's co-founder, Ted B. Miller, Jr., who remains on the board as a director.

Mr. Martin, age 56, has been a Crown Castle board member since Crown Castle's inception in 1995 through November 1998 and from November 1999 to present. He currently serves as the chairman and CEO of Titanium Metals Company (Timet) and the president, CEO and director of Houston-based NL Industries, Inc. (NL), both public companies. Mr. Martin also serves as a director of Halliburton Company, Apartment Investment Management Corporation and Special Metal Corporation, all public companies.

Crown Castle International Corp. engineers, deploys, owns and operates technologically advanced shared wireless infrastructure, including extensive networks of towers and rooftops as well as analog and digital audio and television broadcast transmission systems. The Company offers near-universal broadcast coverage in the United Kingdom and significant wireless communications coverage to 68 of the top 100 United States markets, to more than 95 percent of the UK population and to more than 92 percent of the Australian population. Crown Castle owns, operates and manages over 15,000 wireless communication towers internationally. For more information on Crown Castle, visit: www.crowncastle.com .

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

                Ken Dennard / kdennard@easterly.com
                Lisa Elliott / lisae@easterly.com
                Easterly Investor Relations
                713-529-6600

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SOURCE Crown Castle International Corp.

CONTACT:          W. Benjamin Moreland, CFO, or Jay Brown, VP Finance, both of
                  Crown Castle International Corp., +1-713-570-3000; or Ken Dennard,
                  kdennard@easterly.com , or Lisa Elliott, lisae@easterly.com , both of Easterly
                  Investor Relations, +1-713-529-6600, for Crown Castle International Corp.

URL:              http://www.crowncastle.com 
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