Many of us are familiar with the WAP (wireless application protocol) feature incorporated into a number of recent mobile phones, which makes them capable of exchanging e-mail and visiting some Internet sites. WAP has many limitations, chief among them being that it can use only those small parts of the Internet specifically designed for this protocol.
GPRS is a packet-switched technology, similar to the Internet itself. This means that data transfers are broken up into many small sections, called packets, which each bear an address and wind their way independently to their destination, where they are reassembled. This system is much more efficient than WAP, in which …
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