Crown Castle International Not Bidding for NTL Towers
HOUSTON, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Crown Castle International Corp. (NYSE: CCI) announced today that it is not in talks to purchase NTL's (NYSE: NLI) aerials and transmission business nor does it plan to participate in bidding for NTL's tower assets as published in recent newspapers and wire reports.
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, to more than 95 percent of the UK population and to more than 92 percent of the Australian population. Crown Castle International owns, operates and manages over 15,000 wireless communication sites internationally. For more information on Crown Castle International, visit: www.crowncastle.com .
Contacts: W. Benjamin Moreland, CFO
Carmen Thompson, VP Finance Crown Castle International 713-570-3000 Ken Dennard / kdennard@easterly.com Lisa Elliott / lisae@easterly.com Easterly Investor Relations 713-529-6600 MAKE YOUR OPINION COUNT - Click Here http://tbutton.prnewswire.com/prn/11690X71616102
SOURCE Crown Castle International Corp.
CONTACT: W. Benjamin Moreland, CFO, or Carmen Thompson, VP Finance, both of Crown Castle International Corp., +1-713-570-3000; or Ken Dennard, kdennard@easterly.com, or Lisa Elliott, lisae@easterly.com, both of Easterly Investor Relations, +1-713-529-6600, for Crown Castle International Corp./