Busy Signal

(Fox News) - If you are going to the inauguration next month and plan to send photos and videos from your cell phone or to call friends as President-elect Obama takes the oath of office, the nation's wireless providers want you to reconsider.

The Cellular Telephone Industries Association says the mobile phone network will be so stressed that people should avoid sending photos and videos from the scene. It suggests text-messaging as a means of communication instead of phone calls. A spokesman says: "If four million people show up on the Mall, absolutely expect delays. It's the mother of all demand."

Meanwhile, the major cell phone corporations are bracing for Inauguration week. Sprint, Verizon and T-Mobile are beefing up equipment at existing cell phone towers, adding additional telephone lines and employing satellite trucks to patrol the nation's capital.