General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)

• GPRS provides mobile subscribers with packet switched connection to packet data networks, like the Internet or corporate networks. GPRS will offer a tenfold increase in data throughput rates, from 9.6 kbit/s to 115 kbit/s. The maximum bit rate, theoretically, is 171.2 kbit/s which is achieved using 8 air interface time slots simultaneously. In GPRS, a separate IP backbone network will be introduced which acts as an interface between GSM and packet data networks, like the Internet.