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HOUSTON, Sep 11, 2008 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX News Network) -- Crown Castle International Corp. (NYSE:CCI) announced today that John Kelly, Crown Castle's Executive Vice Chairman, and Ben Moreland, Crown Castle's President and Chief Executive Officer, are scheduled to present Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 1:55 p.m. eastern time at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia XVII. The presentation will be broadcast live over the Internet and is expected to last approximately 40 minutes. The live audio webcast link and presentation for the conference will be available on Crown Castle's website at http://www.crowncastle.com, where it will also be archived for replay.

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 U.S. markets and to substantially all of the Australian population. Crown Castle owns, operates and manages over 22,000 and over 1,600 wireless communication sites in the U.S. and Australia, respectively. For more information on Crown Castle, please visit http://www.crowncastle.com.

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