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General Packet Radio Service

GPRS is a packet-based mobile data service provided over 2G and 3G cellular networks like GSM. It was originally standardized by ETSI to provide packet-switched cellular services and is now maintained by 3GPP. GPRS provides data rates of 56-114 kilobits per second over 2G networks and charges users based on data volume rather than connection time. It is a best-effort service with variable throughput and latency depending on network load.

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General Packet Radio Service

GPRS is a packet-based mobile data service provided over 2G and 3G cellular networks like GSM. It was originally standardized by ETSI to provide packet-switched cellular services and is now maintained by 3GPP. GPRS provides data rates of 56-114 kilobits per second over 2G networks and charges users based on data volume rather than connection time. It is a best-effort service with variable throughput and latency depending on network load.

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General packet radio service (GPRS) is a packet oriented mobile data service on the 2G and 3G cellular

communication system's global system for mobile communications (GSM). GPRS was originally standardized
by European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) in response to the earlier CDPD and imodepacket-switched cellular technologies. It is now maintained by the 3rd Generation Partnership
Project (3GPP).[1][2]
GPRS usage is typically charged based on volume of data transferred, contrasting with circuit switched data,
which is usually billed per minute of connection time. Usage above the bundle cap is either charged per
megabyte or disallowed.
GPRS is a best-effort service, implying variable throughput and latency that depend on the number of other
users sharing the service concurrently, as opposed tocircuit switching, where a certain quality of
service (QoS) is guaranteed during the connection. In 2G systems, GPRS provides data rates of 56114
kbit/second.[3]2G cellular technology combined with GPRS is sometimes described as 2.5G, that is, a
technology between the second (2G) and third (3G) generations of mobile telephony.[4] It provides moderatespeed data transfer, by using unused time division multiple access (TDMA) channels in, for example, the
GSM system. GPRS is integrated into GSM Release 97 and newer releases.

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