Taking Holliday's 40 - petabyte figure and plugging it into the same formula that we worked out for our 50 -
kilobyte e-mail results in a grand total of 1.3 x 10 - 8 pound.
Not exact matches
But because operators bill at such a high rate for data roaming — at about 15 cents per
kilobyte of information in France, for example, which is roughly the amount of information in this paragraph — consumers typically reach that limit within a few hours of downloading standard
e-mails.
Such an
e-mail contains about 50
kilobytes.
Because there are 8 bits in a byte and 1,024 bytes in a
kilobyte, that
e-mail is composed of 409,600 bits.