Phone companies prepare backup plans for Gustav (AP)

55 a.m. EDT Saturday Aug. 30, 2008. Gustav swelled to a fearsome Category 3 hurricane early Saturday with winds of 115 mph as it approached western Cuba on a track to hit the U.S. Gulf Coast three years after Hurricane Katrina. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami called the storm 'dangerous' and said it had reached the status of a major hurricane, the second one of this Atlantic season after Bertha in July. 5 a.m. EDT Saturday, Gustav's eye had left the Caymans behind and was about 255 miles east-southeast of the western tip of Cuba. It was moving northwest near 12 mph. (AP Photo/NOAA)AP - The hurricane bearing down on the Gulf Coast could be a test for the country’s wireless carriers, which faced criticism and a regulatory push after Hurricane Katrina took out networks.

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