Operators say the exploding demand for mobile data makes charging customers by the byte a more viable option than offering unlimited plans.

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Billions of dollars saved by a single 128 byte field.

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HotShot accomplishes this mostly by absorbing strings of up to 100 Java byte-codes at once, each consisting of eight bits of information.

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