By Lisa Oaks

We love our valley tourists with their smartphones, don't we? All the information they need to get around is right at their fingertips. According Mashable, the leading social media news blog, there are now 6.2 billion mobile phone subscriptions held by 4.2 billion mobile subscribers around the world — and that number is only increasing. By 2017, Ericsson, a provider of telecommunications equipment, forecasts nine billion mobile subscriptions. How quickly technology changes! But are the Mount Washington Valley's businesses keeping up with it?

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