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HOUSTON, March 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown Castle International Corp. (NYSE: CCI) announced today that Ben Moreland, Crown Castle's Chief Financial Officer, is scheduled to present Wednesday, March 29, 2006 at 2:50 p.m. eastern time at the Bank of America Media, Telecommunications and Entertainment Conference. Mr. Moreland's presentation will be broadcast live over the Internet and is expected to last approximately 35 minutes. The live audio webcast link for the conference will be available on the Company's website at http://www.crowncastle.com , where it will also be archived for replay.

Crown Castle International Corp. engineers, deploys, owns and operates technologically advanced shared wireless infrastructure, including extensive networks of towers. Crown Castle offers significant wireless communications coverage to 76 of the top 100 U.S. markets and to substantially all of the Australian population. Crown Castle owns, operates and manages over 11,000 and over 1,300 wireless communication sites in the U.S. 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.; Bank of America
ST:  Texas
IN:  CPR TLS FIN
SU:  TDS CCA

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