Crown Castle
Owns, operates, and leases shared communications infrastructure.
Company facts
- Founded
- 1994
- Employees
- 5,000
- Headquarters
- United States
- CEO
- Christian Hillabrant
- Type
- Public
- Listed
- NYSE: CCI
About
In 1994, Crown Castle began its journey as a provider of shared communications infrastructure, recognizing early on that wireless connectivity would become essential to modern life and business. The founders saw an opportunity to build the foundational network infrastructure that would enable people and communities to stay connected in an increasingly mobile world. From its modest beginnings, Crown Castle grew to become the nation's largest provider of shared communications infrastructure, owning and operating cell towers, small cells, and fiber networks that span the United States. Today, Crown Castle stands as a real estate investment trust (REIT) that plays a critical role in supporting wireless connectivity across America. The company owns approximately 40,000 cell towers and approximately 90,000 route miles of fiber, providing the physical infrastructure that allows wireless carriers, tech companies, and other organizations to deliver reliable voice and data services to millions of users. Crown Castle's infrastructure solutions serve a diverse range of customers including wireless carriers, WISPs, telecoms, tech companies, venues, commercial real estate, healthcare organizations, and financial institutions. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, the company continues to expand and transform the way people experience the world by enabling faster, more reliable wireless connectivity in more places than ever before.