Crown Castle Declares Quarterly Preferred Stock Dividend

Crown Castle International Corp. (NYSE:CCI) (“Crown Castle”) announced today that the quarterly dividend on its 4.50% Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock (“Preferred Stock”) will be paid on May 2, 2016 to holders of record on April 15, 2016. The dividend will be paid in cash at a rate of $1.125 per share of Preferred Stock.

ABOUT CROWN CASTLE

Crown Castle provides wireless carriers with the infrastructure they need to keep people connected and businesses running. With approximately 40,000 towers and 17,000 small cell nodes supported by approximately 16,000 miles of fiber, Crown Castle is the nation's largest provider of shared wireless infrastructure with a significant presence in the top 100 US markets. For more information on Crown Castle, please visit www.crowncastle.com.

Contacts: Jay Brown, CFO
Son Nguyen, VP - Corporate Finance
Crown Castle International Corp.
713-570-3050