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  Tom Temin And with respect to getting back to that cell phone data, there are a lot of offers of cell and data services.  But is it fair to say fundamentally there are only three or four basic carriers that actually operate the radio services that carry the service. And there are resellers that then sublet from Verizon or AT&T. And so the supply chain gets a little bit complicated in that manner. Loyaan Egal Yeah. So so not to get too technical, but to your point, there are a handful or even maybe a little less than a handful of major carriers that are what do you call facilities based providers, right? That the carriers that own the networks and the hardware that all of our communications travel through. And on top of those networks, you have other companies that use those networks in business relationships with with the major carriers to provide your cellular service. So you may be subscribed to a specific cell phone provider, but that cell phone provider may be using...

  Insight by Red Hat: Join us for an enlightening panel discussion with moderator , Justin Doubleday and agency and industry leaders who will explore the strategies and tools aimed at empowering the modern digital-native workforce in the intelligence community. Tom Temin And with respect to data privacy, I presume you mean consumers data that are using services where there is data collected when someone’s listening to a broadcast. There’s no data involved because you’re radio is picking out of something on the antenna. But cable and all of these streaming services, you’ve got kind of a chain of carriers and wireline providers and content providers, and they all have data on consumers. Is that context we’re talking about? Loyaan Egal Yeah. So I think the one that probably resonates with most people are cellular phones. Your mobile phone, which I think Pew Research Center put a stat out that said about 97% of Americans now have cellular phones with about 85% of those involving smart...