To get a good signal on his mobile phone, Steve Mallinson says he often moves to the edge of his bed near a window in his home outside Cambridge, England. From there, he often spies a neighbor, whose own spot is down near a fence.

Mallinson, the chief executive of ip.access, a company that makes devices called femto cells, which improve the quality of high-speed 3G mobile reception inside buildings, says a revolution in wireless input is taking place.

“There is a huge amount of mobile notes usage now, and a lot of that is happening in the home,” Mallinson said.

Cisco, Motorola and Intel seem to agree. Each has bought a stake in ip.access, whose devices promise to extend the mobile World Wide Web into every household nook.

And ip.access has competition from Ubiquisys, a British company, as well as Alcatel Lucent and Airvana, which is based in the United States.

Elusive for more than a decade,

mobile info service is beginning to move into the consumer mainstream, industry executives at the CeBIT European technology convention said in Hanover last week, bringing the potential for widespread adoption of more exotic services like push e-mail and mobile video.

In the past six months, the largest European mobile operators, Vodafone, T-Mobile, Orange and O2, which is owned by the Spanish company Telefonica, have reported surges in mobile notes traffic on their networks, fueled by data-hungry devices like the iPhone from Apple, and by multimedia downloads by their Web portals.

The spike in demand has been so sudden that operators like Vodafone, Swisscom and Telecom Italia have had to spend millions upgrading the microwave and fiber urls from cell base stations to their core networks to unclog documents bottlenecks, according to the manufacturers which have sold them the essential equipment.

Some operators, including Vodafone and Orange, a unit of France Telecom, have…

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