Crown Castle Inc. (CCI)

Tower REIT with fiber business held for sale. Read November 8, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 23, 2026. Ranked 8 of the 28 Real Estate companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

Crown Castle states about 4,000 people as of January 31, 2026, all in the U.S., 2,500 of them in the fiber and small cell business recorded in discontinued operations, read at telecommunications, with the remaining tower business at real estate.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 39% now, 45% at the end of 2027, 47% at the end of 2028, 47% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 47% desk work, 22% people work and 31% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 52% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 37% becomes checking a model's work and 10% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

4,000 employees as of January 31, 2026 (stated). All of our employees are based in the U.S., the filing states.

The filing: “As of January 31, 2026, we employed approximately 4,000 people, including approximately 2,500 people recorded in our discontinued operations.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: About 4,000 people, 2,500 of them in discontinued operations; all in the U.S.; no collective bargaining agreements; contingent workers added from time to time; the filing refers to its 2023, 2024 and 2026 Restructuring Plans in its notes, so the next filing year's count is expected to differ with the fiber sale.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Telecommunications, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five. Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.

• Comcast (CMCSA, 179,000 employees)38% now, 49% by 2028
• AT&T (T, 133,030 employees)40% now, 51% by 2028
• Charter Communications, Inc. (CHTR, 91,900 employees)40% now, 51% by 2028
• Verizon (VZ, 89,900 employees)40% now, 51% by 2028
• T-Mobile US, Inc. (TMUS, 75,000 employees)40% now, 51% by 2028
• Lumen Technologies, Inc. (LUMN, 24,000 employees)40% now, 51% by 2028
• Liberty Latin America Ltd. (LILA, 9,000 employees)41% now, 52% by 2028
• Uniti Group Inc. (UNIT, 8,632 employees)40% now, 51% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

7 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI among the drivers of wireless data consumption behind demand for its towers and says the integration and adoption of AI and machine learning into its business may pose new information security risks, in seven sentences.

• “This increase in data consumption is driven by factors such as growth in (1) mobile entertainment (such as mobile video, mobile applications and social networking), (2) mobile internet usage (supporting web browsing and trends in telehealth, remote working, online learning and other remote communications), (3) machine-to-machine applications or the "Internet of Things" (such as connected cars a...”
• “We expect the following factors to contribute to potential demand for our towers: consumers' growing wireless data consumption leading major wireless carriers to upgrade and enhance their networks through the efficient use of towers, including in connection with 5G deployments, in an effort to improve network quality and capacity and customer retention or satisfaction; prior and future potentia...”
• “In addition, integration and adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning ("AI") into our business may pose new information security risks and challenges.”
• “The increased prevalence of AI may 19 also heighten cybersecurity and data protection risks.”
• “AI-enabled systems, as well as AI-driven techniques used by threat actors, may increase the sophistication, scale, frequency, and speed of cyberattacks targeting our information technology systems, operational technology, or sensitive data.”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20210median 0
• Fiscal 20220median 0
• Fiscal 20232median 1
• Fiscal 20243median 4
• Fiscal 20257median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• The 2,500 people in discontinued operations are counted as the filing counts them in its total; the fiber and small cell business is held for sale, so the pattern will change when the sale closes.
• The split rests on the stated discontinued operations count and the remainder; the filing counts no one by function.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001051470-26-000016, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.