On the Record · Crown Castle
Crown Castle competitors, on the record
The companies Crown Castle names as competitors in its annual reports, 2023 to 2025, and the companies that name Crown Castle, each with the sentence and the filing.
Who Crown Castle names
| Company | Named in |
|---|---|
| American Tower Corporation | 2025 |
| SBA Communications Corporation | 2025 |
In its own words
American Tower Corporation, SBA Communications Corporation
Word for word“Some of our largest competitors are American Tower Corporation and SBA Communications Corporation.” 10-K for 2025
Who names Crown Castle
Companies whose own annual reports name Crown Castle as a competitor.
Word for word“We compete, both for new business and for the acquisition of assets, with other public tower companies, such as Crown Castle International Corp., SBA Communications Corporation, Vertical Bridge, Telesites S.A.B. de C.V. and Cellnex Telecom, S.A., wireless carrier tower consortia and private tower companies, private equity sponsored firms, carrier-affiliated tower companies, independent wireless carriers, tower owners, broadcasters and owners of non-communications sites, including rooftops, utility towers, water towers and other alternative structures.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“This includes, but is not limited to, large tower operators (American Tower Corporation, Crown Castle Inc and SBA Communications Corporation), regional tower operators, build-to-suit tower providers, owners of non-tower infrastructure that can be leveraged to house communications equipment (e.g., rooftops) and wireless providers that opt to own and operate their own infrastructure.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Competition Domestic Site Leasing – In the U.S., our primary competitors for our site leasing activities are (1) large independent tower companies including American Tower Corporation and Crown Castle International; (2) a number of regional independent tower owners; (3) wireless service providers that own and operate their own towers and lease, or may in the future decide to lease, antenna space to other providers; (4) owners and operators of alternative facilities such as rooftops, outdoor and indoor distributed antenna system (“DAS”) networks, billboards, utility poles, and electric transmission towers; and (5) owners and operators of alternative wireless technology systems and architectures.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“This includes, but is not limited to, large tower operators (American Tower Corporation, Crown Castle Inc and SBA Communications Corporation), regional tower operators, build-to-suit tower providers, owners of non-tower infrastructure that can be leveraged to house communications equipment (e.g., rooftops) and wireless providers that opt to own and operate their own infrastructure.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“More recently, other multi-geography competitors have emerged due to acquisitions in the industry (e.g., Crown Castle and Uniti).” 10-K for 2019
Word for word“More recently, other multi-geography competitors have emerged due to acquisitions in the industry (e.g., Crown Castle and Uniti).” 10-K for 2019
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.