If you're like most modern professionals, you spend a significant portion of your time online. Chances are you spend much of that time hunting for hot spots and waiting for pages to load with a poor to mediocre Internet connection.

According to Antonio Amezcua, master dealer for CLEAR High-Speed Mobile and CEO of R U Wireless in Texas, CLEAR customers spend their time on the World Wide Web engaging in productivity rather than staring at the dreaded white screens, spinning wheels and flipping hourglasses.

"CLEAR is the first 4G wireless Internet company in the United States, so the speed is super-fast," Amezcua said. "It allows people to downstream movies, videos [and] music, [to] play games [and] to do anything they want anywhere they want."

Amezcua adds that the service and its equipment, which he sells from a growing number of stores in San Antonio and Austin, eliminates the need to locate hot spots and subscribe to Internet services at airports, coffee shops and the like.

"For a competitive and inexpensive monthly charge, the customer is [at a] hot spot anywhere," he said. "They don't have to go to a place with Wi-Fi anymore."

In other words, visit Amezcua's San Antonio R U Wireless store, an authorized CLEAR retailer in the Shops at La Cantera, and he and his employees just might become your new best friends.

For Amezcua, making life easier and more convenient for people to not only get the tunes they want with little delay, but also to do their jobs as efficiently as possible is "absolutely rewarding."

The most rewarding part of his job, however, is "knowing that this company supports families. As we keep growing and keep being successful, I am able to employ people and provide them [with] opportunity through the company. That makes me the happiest."

Amezcua's employees are also among the happiest, according to Michelle Ortega, operations manager for R U Wireless.

"It's been an honor working for Mr. Amezcua," she said. "I have worked with him for seven years, and in my experience, [he] has shown himself to be a very professional, honest and loyal businessman. As an employer, he is very supportive, creative and understanding with his employees. It's been a pleasure to work with him these past few years."

So who is Amezcua, and how did he get his start in the telecommunications business? Joining the likes of Juan Seguín, Manu Ginobili and countless others, he immigrated to the Alamo City in search of opportunity and the fabled American dream. He made the move from his hometown of Mexico City in 1996, abandoning his law studies at Universidad Intercontinental after two-and-a-half years. It didn't take him long to find his calling and get on the road to living the dream, as he entered the telecommunications industry the following year.

Of all the industries he could have pursued, telecommunications appealed to him most because he "realized there was a very lucrative future in communications. I started reading about it, and I got into the wireless business when it was really booming with cell phones in 1997 [and] 1998. I realized it was the right moment to [enter] that kind of industry."

For Amezcua, starting his own business in San Antonio was among the least of his worries, since "it's very easy to open a business here. The steps you have to follow are incredible, and it's a lot of work for small businesses in Texas and the United States, but it's just so easy."

Perhaps starting his business from scratch came easily to him because he had already worked as a businessman for several years prior to leaving Mexico. In 1993, he opened a distributorship in Acapulco that distributed Panasonic batteries and electronics to pharmacies and retail stores; he ran the business for three years before selling it and coming to the states.

This isn't to say Amezcua hasn't met with any challenges. While opening his business was relatively simple, the language barrier and cultural differences proved a bit more difficult.

"Getting to know the people here, this country's lifestyle, its values, the language [and] the way [people here] think was, in the beginning, a little tough," he said, "but it's getting easier and easier."

The drive from his home in San Antonio to his first store in Austin, which he initially had to make seven days a week, was also "really difficult. I had to do that in the beginning in order to get [my business] to grow, [and] it was tough. I don't do that anymore."

He still has to keep up with "one of the most dynamic industries out there," however, and that, in his estimation, "is the hardest part."

Despite the challenges, Amezcua has no regrets. He has "always liked communications," he loves the security and opportunity in San Antonio, and he still finds plenty of time in his schedule to go out for sushi and spend time with his wife and 3-year-old daughter. And with plans to take the business nationwide, he's far from finished following his dream.

With a little confidence and perseverance, he says, anyone can follow in his footsteps.

"Just believe in what you want and believe in what you feel," he said. "Believe with all your heart and all your strength, and follow your dreams. Sometimes you fail, but you need to keep going. That's how you get to be successful."