If you are using any 2nd generation or any 3rd generation mobile phone service, you are most likely to have heard about the GPRS service. Now what is this GPRS? It stands for “General Packet Radio Service”. And as the name suggests, it is a service of transmission and sharing of data over the mobile phone services in the form of packets.
The best part of the GPRS technology against the traditional old-form circuit switching is that they are charged according to the amount of megabytes of data transferred in contrast with of the charging according to the amount of “on” time as followed by the circuit switching technology.
The “European Telecommunications Standard Institute” (ETSI) originally standardized the GPRS technology but now, it is taken over by the “3G Generation Partnership Project” (3GPP). It normally offers a moderate rate transfer of data through the using of the unused TDMA channels; TDMA stands for “time division multiple access”. It follows the GSM standards and was developed as a response to the earlier mobile communications technology like i-mode packet switching and CDPD, etc.
GPRS technology is one of the best packet switching data transferring technologies that has been developed in the recent times and it is one of the most popular of the mobile technologies of all time.