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With wireless communications outpacing wireline in growth and profit potential, Sprint Nextel and Alltel, which both mainly served rural phone customers, recently decided to spin off their wireline holdings to focus instead on lucrative wireless services.

Every day, Verizon technicians are stringing and burying miles of fiber optic cable but for customers eager to have state-of-the-art Internet, phone and TV service, it can't reach their neighborhoods fast enough.