GPRS Information

GPRS INFORMATION

GPRS :- General Packet Radio Service.

GPRS is a packet oriented Mobile Data Service. GPRS can be used for services such as Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) access. Shourt Message Service (SMS). Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) and for Internet communication services such as email and World Wide Web access.

GPRS data transfer is typically charged per megabyte of throughput, while data communication via traditional circuit switching is billed per minute of connection time, independent of whether the user actually is utilizing the capacity or is in an idle state. GPRS is a best-effort packet switched service, as opposed to circuit switching, where a certain Quality of Service is guaranteed during the connection for non-mobile users.

GPRS used for mobile internet, MMS and other data communications. In theory the speed limit of GPRS is 115 Kbps, but in most network it is around 35 Kbps. Informally, GPRS is also called 2.5G.

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