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HOUSTON, June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Crown Castle International Corp. (NYSE: CCI) announced today that it has named Dale N. Hatfield to its Board of Directors, filling a vacant position on the Board.

Mr. Hatfield, age 63, is currently the Director of the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. From 1997 to December 2000, Mr. Hatfield held several positions with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), including Chief of the Office of Engineering and Technology and Chief Technologist in the Office of Plans and Policy. Mr. Hatfield has also held positions in the U.S. Department of Commerce including Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and Deputy Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). Mr. Hatfield retired from government service in December 2000.

"We are very pleased to add someone with such a vast wealth of telecommunications knowledge and experience to our Board of Directors," stated Ted B. Miller, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Crown Castle International. "Mr. Hatfield's engineering and industry expertise will be a tremendous asset to Crown Castle."

Prior to working for the FCC, Mr. Hatfield was Chief Executive Officer of Hatfield Associates Inc., a multidisciplinary telecommunications consulting firm. In 1973, Mr. Hatfield received a Department of Commerce Silver Medal for contributions to domestic communications satellite policy, and in 1999, he received the Attorney General's Distinguished Service Award. More recently, Mr. Hatfield received the PCIA Foundation's award for exceptional professionalism and dedication in government service and the FCC's Gold Medal Award for distinguished service. Mr. Hatfield has also served on a variety of corporate boards including Cushcraft Corporation, Pittencrief Communications and Data-Marine International.

Mr. Hatfield received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Case Institute of Technology and an MS in Industrial Management from Purdue University.

Crown Castle International Corp. engineers, deploys, owns and operates technologically advanced, shared wireless infrastructure. The Company offers near-universal broadcast coverage in the United Kingdom and significant wireless communications coverage to 68 of the top 100 US markets, more than 95 percent of the UK population and more than 92 percent of the Australian population. Pro forma for all closed and previously announced transactions, Crown Castle International owns, operates, and manages over 13,000 wireless communication towers internationally. In addition, Crown Castle has development rights to 4,000 fiber exchange sites in the UK. In Italy, Crown Castle and RAI, through RaiWay, offer near-universal broadcast coverage. For more information on Crown Castle International, visit: www.crowncastle.com.

Contacts: W. Benjamin Moreland, CFO

                Crown Castle International
                713-570-3000

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

                    

SOURCE Crown Castle International Corp.

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