GPRS - General Packet Radio Service
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General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) is a mobile data service available to users of GSM and IS-136 mobile phones. GPRS data transfer is typically charged per megabyte of transferred data, while data communication via traditional circuit switching is billed per minute of connection time, independent of whether the user has actually transferred data or he has been in an idle state. GPRS can be utilized for services such as WAP access, SMS and MMS, but also for Internet communication services such as email and web access. The maximum speed of a GPRS connection (as offered in 2003) is the same as modem connection in an analog wire telephone network, about 32–40 kbit/s.
