GPRS is a data service that is available to users of GSM and IS-136 handsets. Packet data capabilities were added in the Release '97 version of the GSM standard by means of GPRS (General Packet Radio Services). data rate was increased to 43.2 kbit/s in the downlink and 14.4 kbit/s in the uplink. With the technical interim solution HSCSD, the max. load of 9.6 kbit/s in the downlink and uplink. GSM originally was developed to transmit voice, but it is also able to transmit data with a max. GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) networks have been deployed worldwide as second-generation mobile communications systems.
