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Income Taxes (Effective Tax Rate) (Details) (USD $)
3 Months Ended 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2013
Sep. 30, 2013
Jun. 30, 2013
Mar. 31, 2013
Dec. 31, 2014
Dec. 31, 2013
Dec. 31, 2012
Operating Loss Carryforwards [Line Items]              
Benefit (provision) for income taxes at statutory rate         $ (135,847,000)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationIncomeTaxExpenseBenefitAtFederalStatutoryIncomeTaxRate $ (102,385,000)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationIncomeTaxExpenseBenefitAtFederalStatutoryIncomeTaxRate $ (35,289,000)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationIncomeTaxExpenseBenefitAtFederalStatutoryIncomeTaxRate
Tax effect of foreign income (losses)         14,277,000us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationForeignIncomeTaxRateDifferential 11,258,000us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationForeignIncomeTaxRateDifferential 8,251,000us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationForeignIncomeTaxRateDifferential
Tax adjustment related to REIT operations         132,951,000cci_TaxadjustmentrelatedtoREIToperations 0cci_TaxadjustmentrelatedtoREIToperations 0cci_TaxadjustmentrelatedtoREIToperations
Tax adjustment related to the REIT conversion         0cci_TaxadjustmentrelatedtotheREITconversion [1] (67,395,000)cci_TaxadjustmentrelatedtotheREITconversion [1] 0cci_TaxadjustmentrelatedtotheREITconversion [1]
Expenses for which no federal tax benefit was recognized         (463,000)cci_LossesForWhichNoTaxBenefitWasRecognized (9,570,000)cci_LossesForWhichNoTaxBenefitWasRecognized (3,874,000)cci_LossesForWhichNoTaxBenefitWasRecognized
Valuation allowances         9,000,000us-gaap_ValuationAllowanceDeferredTaxAssetChangeInAmount 0us-gaap_ValuationAllowanceDeferredTaxAssetChangeInAmount 95,072,000us-gaap_ValuationAllowanceDeferredTaxAssetChangeInAmount
State tax (provision) benefit, net of federal         (3,136,000)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationStateAndLocalIncomeTaxes (14,852,000)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationStateAndLocalIncomeTaxes (1,097,000)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationStateAndLocalIncomeTaxes
Foreign tax         (7,836,000)us-gaap_ForeignIncomeTaxExpenseBenefitContinuingOperations (12,868,000)us-gaap_ForeignIncomeTaxExpenseBenefitContinuingOperations 35,877,000us-gaap_ForeignIncomeTaxExpenseBenefitContinuingOperations
Other         1,694,000us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationOtherAdjustments (2,816,000)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationOtherAdjustments 1,121,000us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationOtherAdjustments
Total benefit (provision) for income taxes 110,374,000us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit [2] 33,959,000us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit [2] 36,587,000us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit [2] 17,708,000us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit [2] 10,640,000us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit (198,628,000)us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit 100,061,000us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit
REIT tax adjustment to reclassify a deferred tax charge from AOCI           39,800,000cci_ReclassificationofdeferredtaxchargefromAOCI  
Capital Loss Carryforward [Member]              
Operating Loss Carryforwards [Line Items]              
Valuation allowances           $ (29,400,000)us-gaap_ValuationAllowanceDeferredTaxAssetChangeInAmount
/ us-gaap_TaxCreditCarryforwardAxis
= us-gaap_CapitalLossCarryforwardMember
 
[1] Inclusive of a $39.8 million adjustment during the year ended December 31, 2013 to reclassify a deferred tax charge from AOCI to the provision for income taxes.
[2] Inclusive of the tax adjustment related to the REIT election of 67.4 million. See also note 10.