In New York, copper wires have not been upgraded to carry data in many places.
The cables carry data to western Europe from telephone exchanges and internet servers in north America.
Bluetooth uses radio waves to carry data between computers, cellphones and other properly equipped devices.
Existing wiring could carry data to smart lightbulbs, providing easy network access points throughout home or office.
Fibre optic cables carry data across continents, in this case across the Pacific, and are the backbone of the internet.
Already, cable companies carry data and telephone calls; telephone carriers transport television, films and music.
And they can carry data into homes and back out, providing the Internet and voice services that cannot come from the sky.
In the late 1990's, Qwest was primarily in the business of building and operating long-haul fiber networks to carry data traffic.
Wayport is increasingly relying on Wi-Fi hot spots, which are public access wireless transmitters that carry data at high speed over ranges of 30 to 300 feet.
Both local networks connecting today's desktop PCs and the Internet's new long-haul fibre networks carry data at blistering speeds.
Flash-based memory sticks, or keychain drives, have dethroned floppy disks as the easiest way to carry data around.
