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Crown Castle acquisitions, on the record

The businesses Crown Castle bought and sold, as its annual reports describe them, with the cash it reported paying for acquisitions each year and every deal filing since 2016.

Deals its annual reports describe

Business	Deal	When	Value
LTS Group Holdings LLC, Inc., Wilcon Holdings LLC, FPL FiberNet Holdings, LLC and certain other subsidiaries of NextEra Energy Word for word“Our fiber assets include those we acquired from LTS Group Holdings LLC, Inc., Wilcon Holdings LLC and FPL FiberNet Holdings, LLC and certain other subsidiaries of NextEra Energy in 2017, Quanta Fiber Networks, Inc. in 2015, and NextG Networks, Inc. in 2012.” 10-K for 2023	acquisition	2017	—
Quanta Fiber Networks, Inc. Word for word“Our fiber assets include those we acquired from LTS Group Holdings LLC, Inc., Wilcon Holdings LLC and FPL FiberNet Holdings, LLC and certain other subsidiaries of NextEra Energy in 2017, Quanta Fiber Networks, Inc. in 2015, and NextG Networks, Inc. in 2012.” 10-K for 2023	acquisition	2015	—
NextG Networks, Inc. Word for word“Our fiber assets include those we acquired from LTS Group Holdings LLC, Inc., Wilcon Holdings LLC and FPL FiberNet Holdings, LLC and certain other subsidiaries of NextEra Energy in 2017, Quanta Fiber Networks, Inc. in 2015, and NextG Networks, Inc. in 2012.” 10-K for 2023	acquisition	2012	—
Largest U.S. wireless carriers (or their predecessors), including AT&T, T-Mobile, companies now part of T-Mobile, companies now part of Verizon Wireless and companies now part of AT&T Word for word“We acquired ownership interests or exclusive rights to the majority of our towers directly or indirectly from the largest U.S. wireless carriers (or their predecessors) through transactions consummated since 1999, including towers from (1) AT&T in 2013, (2) T-Mobile in 2012, (3) companies now part of T-Mobile in 2007, (4) companies now part of Verizon Wireless in 1999 and 2000 and (5) companies now part of AT&T in 1999 and 2000.” 10-K for 2023	acquisition	since 1999	—
Fiber Business Word for word“On March 13, 2025, we signed the Strategic Fiber Agreement to sell all of our Fiber Business, with Zayo acquiring the fiber solutions business and EQT acquiring the small cell business.” 10-K for 2024	agreed divestiture	On March 13, 2025	—
Fiber Business (fiber solutions business to Zayo and small cell business to EQT) Word for word“On March 13, 2025, we signed the Strategic Fiber Agreement to sell all of our Fiber Business, with Zayo acquiring the fiber solutions business and EQT acquiring the small cell business.” 10-K for 2025	agreed divestiture	On March 13, 2025	—

As filedReported in the company's financial data (XBRL), each linked to its filing
Fiscal year ended	Cash paid for acquisitions (net of cash acquired)	Cash received from selling businesses
2016-12-31	$557 million	$1.2 billion
2017-12-31	−$9.26 billion	—
2018-12-31	$42 million	—
2019-12-31	$17 million	—
2020-12-31	$107 million	—
2021-12-31	$111 million	—
2022-12-31	$35 million	—
2023-12-31	$96 million	—
2024-12-31	$8 million	—
2025-12-31	$0	—

Deal filings since 2016

2026-05-01 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2026-05-01 Form 8-K, Item 2.01: Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets
2025-03-17 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2024-08-12 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2024-08-02 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2024-03-20 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2024-03-04 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2023-12-20 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2023-12-06 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2023-12-05 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2023-12-01 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2023-04-26 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2023-04-25 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2023-01-11 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2023-01-10 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2022-07-08 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2022-05-20 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2022-03-04 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2022-03-03 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2021-06-29 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2021-06-22 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2021-06-16 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2021-03-19 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2021-02-16 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2021-02-09 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2020-06-15 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2020-06-05 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2020-04-03 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2020-04-02 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2019-08-15 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2019-08-02 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2019-06-21 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2019-04-08 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2019-03-20 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2019-02-11 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2019-01-30 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2018-07-16 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2018-06-14 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2018-04-06 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2018-03-05 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2018-01-17 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2018-01-10 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2017-11-01 Form 8-K, Item 2.01: Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets
2017-08-29 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2017-08-01 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2017-07-26 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2017-07-26 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2017-07-19 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2017-05-01 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2017-02-13 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2017-02-02 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2016-11-07 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2016-09-01 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2016-08-23 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2016-05-06 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2016-04-27 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2016-02-08 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2016-01-29 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2016-01-22 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement

Read from Crown Castle’s annual reports (10-K for 2025, 10-K for 2024, 10-K for 2023) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2026-02-23. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.