Eli5 – How does data work and how do mobile and internet companies create it ? Can they create as much as they want ? Do they control the quota to control prices ?
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Think of “data” as trucks. The real important thing for getting data around is the roads that those trucks drive on.
Certain roads can carry more trucks per hour than others, and some roads are more direct routes for trucks than others.
What your mobile or internet provider is doing is like providing roads from the highway to your house. The truck can then take those roads to get to your house. Without having a provider, you just don’t have a road that goes to your house. At the other end, the server is in a datacenter like a warehouse that is connected to a highway (likely right off the highway exit for faster access), so they can get stuff out to everyone who wants it faster.
The highways themselves are another level of ISP. While mobile providers or ISPs provide that last mile connectivity, there are a whole different level of ISP’s that provide linkages between cities or between continents. Those are the roads that your state/province is putting down between the cities to connect them.
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