Third-generation wireless (the first two were analog and the current version of digital) can move data at 384 kilobits a second, six times the speed of a good computer modem.

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All you have to know is that Watson is not connected to the Internet, contains more than ten trillion bytes of data and operates the equivalent of 2, 800 computer nodes on an ultra-high-speed network.

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Tim Critchley, one of the founders of Pogo Technology, said this system meant data flies around at the equivalent of 50kbps - almost the same speed as the fastest computer modems.

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Instead, high-speed wireless access services can leapfrog the fiber lines directly to your computer and provide even higher rates of data transmission-- over the same CDMA network that's already in place to route cell phone traffic.

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