Data capacity — the supply — is not growing at that rate.
If they wanted to increase data capacity, they'd build more towers and feed them with fiber.
The data capacity will be just an hors d'oeuvre compared to the Teledesic feast, but it will be a step in the direction Mr. McCaw wants to go.
Both types of lines are capable of carrying TV signals, but V.D.S.L. has a larger data capacity: as much as 50 megabits per second.
With its data capacity reduced by half, PCCW cautioned that some Internet users in the region could experience congestion over the next several days.
These include Bandwidth.com, which serves as a broker between companies shopping for long-term or temporary telecommunications services and carriers offering high-speed data capacity.
For example, while mobile data speeds can be high, in most cases mobile data capacity is low, meaning that fixed data pipes are important for many applications.
The data capacity of flash drives is also ballooning, with one- and two-gigabyte models becoming common and the latest models ranging up to 16 gigabytes, making them all practical alternatives to DVDs for storing and transferring big video files.
The Lieberman campaign had access to 200 gigabytes of data capacity a month, he said, a figure that is significantly higher than the capacity of 10 gigabytes a month, which had been cited by Lamont supporters.
He also pointed to what he described as broader issues affecting the stock market industry as a whole, including information security and data capacity.
A substantial impetus for the project was the need to ensure adequate data capacity to reliably broadcast the World Cup matches.
