Having a huge virtual network of connections cons you into thinking that these are real friends and genuine contacts.

It has benefited from the trend for cloud computing as consumers and businesses have moved more information from their own servers and computers to the virtual network.

This led on to virtual network computing software, which allows one computer to access another and control it.

It functions as a mobile virtual network operator (using m:tel).

For mobile virtual network operators, the network quality depends entirely on the host network for the particular handset in question.