What is GPRS?

The world of mobile phones is changing, it seems daily. All rage are 3G, third generation telephony, such as mobile browsing and other advanced features. These 3G protocols are produced on building blocks of 2G technologies that were revolutionary when they began to use widely. Between these two technologies is a general packet radio service (GPRS). GPRS is sometimes called 2.5G because it prevents 3G, but is more advanced than 2G. GPRS also boasts a communication speed of up to 115 kilobites per second, a huge improvement compared to the GSM standard 9.6 kilobites per second. Very few users always need data transfer, so GPRS Works for the vast majority of users. Such new technological features such as web pages, quick messaging, and real-time e-mail receiving intermittent data transfers, and are perfect examples of successful features of the shared bandwidth capacity GPRS offers. This kind of shared forENOS is called switching of packets . GPRS also makes video streaming, web services based on location and multimedia messages. However, these functions include larger and more continuous data currents and usually require the user to expect a little longer than such data transactions.

The close cousin of GPRS in the technological pedigree is an increased data speed for GSM (EDGE) evolution. Edge allows higher bit transmission speeds at the price of a lower bandwidth that is available for ordinary old phone calls. Edge is particularly useful as a GPRS solution for a larger DESCRIBED data service above, such as video streaming and video conferencing.

GPRS is a bridge between 2G and 3G mobile phone technologies. GPRS also allows the use of notebooks as GSM devices that work either to connect to the satellite or WiFi. In this way, the boundary between the mobile phone andMobile computer further blurred.