关于GPRS的介绍，里面有部分重复，主要说明了GPRS技术，应用，以及当前GPRS的形势。

整理者：王祖一

General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) enabled networks offer 'always-on', higher capacity, Internet-based content and packet-based data services. This enables services such as colour Internet browsing, e-mail on the move, powerful visual communications, multimedia messages and location-based services.

  The GSM platform is a hugely successful wireless technology and an unprecedented story of global achievement. In less than.ten years since the first GSM network was commercially launched, it became the world’s leading and fastest growing mobile standard, spanning over 170 countries. Today, GSM technology is in use by more than one in ten of the world’s population and growth continues to soar with the number of subscribers worldwide expected to surpass one billion by the end of 2003.

The progress hasn’t stopped there. The GSM platform is living, growing and evolving and already offers an expanded and feature-rich ‘family’ of voice and data enabling services.

   GSM–The Wireless Evolution is achieved through the GSM family of wireless communication platforms. The GSM family consists of today’s GSM, General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE) and third generation GSM services (3GSM*).

Together the GSM family provides a flexible platform and an evolutionary path that enables network operators to offer a potentially limitless range of revenue generating services, meeting the ever-growing needs of their customers worldwide.

The defined and progressive roadmap of the GSM family means network operators worldwide can confidently plan their future and effectively expand and match their

range of services to address the needs of the corporate and consumer markets.

Services range from the delivery of high quality digital voice services, through to the ‘always-on’ high-capacity data services enabled by GPRS, EDGE and the third generation multimedia services of 3GSM*.

GSM–The Wireless Evolution, leads the way with a clear path into the future, which is designed to drive future subscriber growth through the introduction of new and innovative voice and data services.