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HOUSTON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 8, 2000--Crown Castle International Corp. (Nasdaq:TWRS) announced today it will participate in UBS Warburg's Fifth Annual Global Telecom Conference that is being held Monday, Nov. 13 through Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2000, at The Plaza Hotel in New York. The conference features company presentations, panel discussions and keynote speeches to institutional investors and the media.

Crown Castle is currently scheduled to make its presentation on Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2000, from approximately 10:45 a.m. through 11:15 a.m. eastern time. A live audio simulcast of this presentation with an accompanying slide presentation will be available on the company's Web site at www.crowncastle.com. To listen to the conference via phone, call 800/289-0573 for the live presentation. For the recorded replay, call 888/567-0766. To listen to the live presentation on the Web, please visit the company's Web site at least fifteen minutes prior to the beginning of the scheduled presentation to register, download and install any necessary audio software.

For more information regarding this conference or the simulcast, please contact Ken Dennard or Rick Black at Easterly Investor Relations, 713/529-6600. Crown Castle International Corp. engineers, deploys, owns and operates technologically advanced shared wireless infrastructure, including extensive networks of towers and rooftops as well as analog and digital audio and television broadcast transmission systems. The company offers near-universal broadcast coverage in the United Kingdom and significant wireless communications coverage to 68 of the top 100 United States markets, more than 95 percent of the U.K. population and more than 92 percent of the Australian population. Crown Castle International owns, operates and manages over 12,000 wireless communication towers internationally. For more information on Crown Castle International, visit: www.crowncastle.com.