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Crown Castle International Corp. – ‘8-K’ for 4/21/21 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On: Wednesday, 4/21/21, at 4:19pm ET · For: 4/21/21 · Accession #: 1051470-21-122 · File #: 1-16441

  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size

 4/21/21  Crown Castle International Corp.  8-K:2,7,9   4/21/21   14:10M

Current Report — Form 8-K
Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

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 2: EX-99.1     Miscellaneous Exhibit                               HTML    271K 
 3: EX-99.2     Miscellaneous Exhibit                               HTML    419K 
10: R1          Cover Page DEI Document                             HTML     50K 
12: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML     13K 
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11: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX      6K 
 5: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- cci-20210421_cal                XML      7K 
 6: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- cci-20210421_def                 XML     40K 
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 8: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- cci-20210421_pre               XML     41K 
 4: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- cci-20210421                          XSD     13K 
13: JSON        XBRL Instance as JSON Data -- MetaLinks               14±    21K 
14: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0001051470-21-000122-xbrl      Zip    114K

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Crown Castle International Corp. – ‘8-K’ for 4/21/21 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On: Wednesday, 4/21/21, at 4:19pm ET · For: 4/21/21 · Accession #: 1051470-21-122 · File #: 1-16441

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