HOUSTON, Sept. 15, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Crown Castle International Corp. (NYSE:CCI - News) announced that due to the effects of Hurricane Ike it will not present as scheduled today, Monday, September 15, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. pacific time at the Bank of America Annual Investment Conference.

As previously announced, Crown Castle plans to present on Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 1:55 p.m. eastern time at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia XVII conference. The presentation will be broadcast live over the Internet and is expected to last approximately 40 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 engineers, deploys, owns and operates technologically advanced shared wireless infrastructure, including extensive networks of towers. Crown Castle offers significant wireless communications coverage to 91 of the top 100 U.S. markets and to substantially all of the Australian population. Crown Castle owns, operates and manages over 22,000 and over 1,600 wireless communication sites in the U.S. and Australia, respectively. For more information on Crown Castle, please visit http://www.crowncastle.com.

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          Crown Castle International Corp.
          Jay Brown, CFO
          Fiona McKone, VP - Finance
          713-570-3000