Telecoms hustle to maintain capacity - RocNow.com

Your phone lets you surf the Web, snap and e-mail photos to Mom and get real-time driving directions. Your laptop can get Internet access almost anywhere via PC cards or Wi-Fi networks.

Consumers’ growing demand for mobile connectivity to broadband is carrying an increasing cost for the local telecommunications industry — either in millions of dollars being spent to create or upgrade wireless networks or in lost business as customers migrate from traditional land lines...