The technological developments described in Section B.1 have improved the quality, speed, carriage capacity and affordability of networks - including, for example, fixed and mobile broadband services - making it easier to supply products digitally and to connect producers, sellers and consumers across borders. Cross-border data flows, boosted by basic and value-added telecommunication services, such as data processing and storage via high capacity (i.e. “cloud" storage), allow companies not only to sell their goods and services, but also to coordinate their logistics and the activities of their subsidiaries and partner offices across the globe (Tuthill, 2016). Nowadays, broadband access to the internet and other data networks offers the higher speeds that are required to exploit technologies such as cloud computing that allow a more widespread use or offering of services that require the transfer of large quantities of data (WTO, 2016c).