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The GPRS is a very important step in the evolution of second generation
mobile systems towards third generation systems. It offers packet switching
of packet data along with the conventional circuit switching of voice data.
The billing is friendly, the data rates are high and call setup time is very
low. The system is optimized for packet switched data and is transition from
the circuit switched cellular network to totally packet switched cellular
networks.
2002-10-12