GPRS
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GPRS (uncountable)
(mobile telephony) Initialism of General Packet Radio Service.
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; 32-bit integer capability : All general-purpose registers (GPRs) are expanded from 16 bits to 32 bits, and all arithmetic and logical operations, memory-to-register and register-to-memory operations, etc., can operate directly on 32-bit integers.
According to a study on history of GPRS development Bernhard Walke: „The Roots of GPRS: The First System for Mobile Packet-Based Global Internet Access“, IEEE Wireless Communications, Oct. 2013, 12-23.
Bernhard Walke and his student Peter Decker are the inventors of GPRS – the first system providing worldwide mobile Internet access.
;Class B: Can be connected to GPRS service and GSM service (voice, SMS), but using only one or the other at a given time.
Addressing A GPRS connection is established by reference to its access point name (APN).
All of these operators are 100 percent digitalized and offer 2G, GPRS, EDGE, and 3G services.