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The Coming Bandwidth Crunch Users can have two-way conversations with Apple's iPhone 4S. Its popular feature Siri is taking up a lot of bandwidth, but it's not the only technology that's pushing the envelope of limited capacity. The number of wireless devices in the US now exceeds the number of people. Smart phones, tablets and other devices are gobbling up bandwidth fast. Silicon-Valley based technology writer Howard Baldwin has more on the coming bandwidth crunch .
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