HOW DO SMARTPHONES ACCESS THE INTERNET?
Lucy McKenzie
The way smartphones send and receive data is different from the way they make calls in that data is sent to and from the web instead of another phone. The incoming and outgoing data is converted into tiny segments called data ‘packets’. These are labelled either ‘voice’ or ‘data’ and treated accordingly. Web search data is sent as packets to the nearest base station and from there on to the internet. The reply will return by the same path and will be decoded by your phone.