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                                      NEWS

                                                     For additional information:
                                                     Jeffrey A. Stoops
                                                     Chief Financial Officer
                                                     (561) 995-7670

                              FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

         SBA PRICES OFFERING OF 9,000,000 SHARES OF CLASS A COMMON STOCK

BOCA  RATON,  FLORIDA,  January  28, 2000  (NASDAQ:  SBAC) - SBA  Communications
Corporation  announced  that it has priced its offering of Class A Common Stock.
Immediately prior to pricing, the Company filed an amendment to its Registration
Statement  increasing  the  number of shares  that  would be offered by SBA from
6,000,000  shares to 9,000,000 shares of its Class A common stock plus up to 15%
of additional  shares that may be offered by certain  shareholders  to cover any
over-allotments.

The price of the Class A common stock was set at $27.00 per share.

Net proceeds from the offering will be used by the Company to repay a portion of
outstanding  debt,  to finance the  construction  and  acquisition  of towers or
related businesses,  and for general working capital purposes.  The Company will
not receive the proceeds from any sale of shares by the selling shareholders.

The offering was  underwritten by Lehman  Brothers,  Deutsche Banc Alex.  Brown,
Salomon Smith Barney Inc., Raymond James & Associates, Inc. and Fidelity Capital
Markets,  a division of National  Financial  Services  Corporation.  Copies of a
prospectus  for the offering may be obtained from the  Prospectus  Department of
Lehman Brothers.

SBA is a leading  independent  owner and  operator  of  wireless  communications
infrastructure in the United States.  SBA's primary focus is the construction of
new towers and acquisition of existing towers for its own account.  Since it was
founded in 1989, SBA has  participated in the development of over 13,000 antenna
sites in the United States.

Information Concerning Forward-Looking Statements

Some  information  in this  release is  forward-looking.  These  forward-looking
statements  may be  affected  by the risks and  uncertainties  in the  Company's
business.  The Company wishes to caution readers that certain  important factors
may have affected and could in the future affect the  Company's  actual  results
and could cause the Company's  actual results for  subsequent  periods to differ
materially from those expressed in any  forward-looking  statement made by or on
behalf of the Company.


Such factors include,  but are not limited to, (1) our ability to secure as many
site  leasing  tenants as planned;  (2) our  ability to expand our site  leasing
business  and our  site  development  business;  (3)  our  ability  to  complete
construction of new towers on a timely and cost-efficient  basis,  including our
ability to successfully address zoning issues, carrier design changes,  changing
local market  conditions and the impact of adverse weather  conditions;  (4) our
ability to identify and acquire new towers,  including our  capability to timely
complete  due  diligence  and obtain  third party  consents;  (5) our ability to
retain  current  lessees on newly  acquired  towers;  (6) our ability to realize
economies of scale for newly acquired  towers;  (7) the continued  dependence on
towers by the  wireless  communications  industry;  (8) our  ability  to compete
effectively for new tower opportunities in light of increasing competition;  and
(9) our ability to raise  substantial  additional  financing to expand our tower
holdings.  The  Company  undertakes  no  obligation  to  update  forward-looking
statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof. Information
concerning the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from
those  expectations  and estimates are contained in the Risk Factors  section of
the  Company's  Registration  Statement  on  Form  S-3,  filed  with  the SEC in
connection with this offering, and the Company's other securities filings.

For further  information,  please  contact  Jeffrey A. Stoops,  Chief  Financial
Officer, at 561-995-7670.