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Crown Castle Inc.: Towers Are Crown Castle’s Crown Jewel; High Fiber Spending Seems Less Worthwhile

Symbols
CCI
Sector(s)
Real Estate
Rating
Current Price
$94.21
Fair Value
Economic Moat
Stewardship
Summary

Crown Castle International owns and leases roughly 40,000 cell towers in the United States. It also owns more than 85,000 route miles of fiber. It leases space on its towers to wireless service providers, which install equipment on the towers to support their wireless networks. The company’s fiber is primarily leased by wireless service providers to set up small-cell network infrastructure and by enterprises for their internal connection needs. Crown Castle’s towers and fiber are predominantly located in the largest U.S. cities. The comp

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Analyst Profile

Matthew Dolgin

Equity Analyst
Matthew Dolgin is an equity analyst for Morningstar Research Services LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Morningstar, Inc. He covers companies in the technology sector.Before joining Morningstar in 2016, Dolgin was a compliance examiner for the National Futures Association.Dolgin holds a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology from Northern Illinois University, a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Notre Dame, and a juris doctor degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Chicago-Kent College of Law. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.