One of Tetra's original selling points was its ability to handle data as well as voice.
RIM operates a proprietary, worldwide network to handle data traveling to and from BlackBerrys.
ACS first set up such outposts abroad to lower costs, but expanded further as it struggled to find enough workers in America willing to handle data processing.
Two years ago, the topic of the hour was 3G, or third generation, an improved cellular infrastructure to handle data at higher speeds.
I'd like to discuss four examples of issues that many are struggling with in this new ecosystem: paywalls, linking to sources, readers' conversations, and how to handle data.
Prof Sir Ian Diamond, chair of the British Academy's quantitative skills strategy group, said: "Our ability to handle data and reason using numbers will not be transformed overnight.
Many US companies have established or are in the process of building EU-based data centres to handle data for EU citizens, including Facebook, Apple and Google.
A potentially huge market exists for cellular phones, electronic organizers and other devices as they are crafted to handle data from the Web.
The cap on data was instead set at the wholesale level, limiting the amount operators could charge each other to handle data calls between their customers.
That growth rate will not last for ever; but other aspects of computation, such as the capacity of algorithms to handle data, are also growing exponentially.
Notably, AMD devised a clever way to enable chips to handle data in both 32-bit and 64-bit chunks, which improves their performance.
