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HOUSTON, Sept. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown Castle International Corp. (NYSE: CCI) announced today that W. Benjamin Moreland, Crown Castle's Chief Financial Officer, is scheduled to present Wednesday, September 8, 2004 at 8:45 a.m. eastern time at the Morgan Stanley 9th Annual Media & Communications Conference. Mr. Moreland's presentation will be broadcast live over the Internet and is expected to last approximately 40 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 68 of the top 100 United States markets and to substantially all of the Australian population. Crown Castle owns, operates and manages over 10,600 and over 1,300 wireless communication sites in the U.S. and Australia, respectively. For more information on Crown Castle 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.; Morgan Stanley
ST:  Texas
IN:  CPR TLS
SU:  TDS CCA MAV

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