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HOUSTON, March 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown Castle International Corp. (NYSE: CCI) announced today that Jay Brown, Crown Castle's Treasurer, is scheduled to present Wednesday, March 8, 2006 at 9:15 a.m. eastern time at the Raymond James Institutional Investor Conference. Mr. Brown's presentation will be broadcast live over the Internet and is expected to last approximately 30 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 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
   http://www.rjcapitalmarkets.com/conference_detail_main.asp?content_id=100 /
    (CCI)

CO:  Crown Castle International Corp.; Raymond James
ST:  Texas
IN:  CPR TLS
SU:  CCA TDS MAV

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