Recently we attended a GPRS expansion. The exchange of MMS and the possibility that they can be edited in our computer is one of the most spectacular applications of this technology. So far, the GPRS applications offered more field-focused professional to consumer.
It is possible that many users had heard of GPRS without knowing exactly what it was. And so it was until less than a year in which, driven by growth in the market for PDA's and their respective compatibilities between mobile devices, the GPRS started to gain some expression in the world of mobile communications. However, the most valued by service users is not so much the download speed of information as the objective reality of the Internet to access "wireless".
GPRS and i-mode.
One of the potential competitors in the area of Internet access 'wireless' is the i-mode when you start your service. Currently, this technology developed by the Japanese telecom giant NTT DoCoMo is already present in European countries like France, Belgium, Holland and Germany.
In Spain, Telefonica Movistar, which had announced it would start commercial exploitation of the i-mode from NTT DoCoMo on the 1st of April, stopped its release. In the words of Javier Aguilera, CEO of the operator during the presentation of new content for E-GPRS motion during the month of April, the "I-mode where business will be launched for hundreds of thousands of customers.
However in a recent seminar on i-mode in the past held on 8 May in Madrid by AECOM, Telefonica Movistar brought a new solution to the lack of terminal capable i-mode. This is the possibility of adapting the i-mode content to a format that can be played on the terminal screen that the client owns Movistar e-motion.
GPRS and UMTS.
The overall market's attentions are focused on the tug of the third generation technology called UMTS. News of Hutchinson 3G initiatives in Britain and Italy from Mobilkom Austria and Vodafone in Ireland gives the impression that this technology will soon be launched in our country.
This quantum leap in the world of mobile communications, which accounts for UMTS, GPRS found in a sort of preliminary step intended to release a new type of communication, users accustomed to a new concept of communication itself best arguments of science fiction. Similarly, the volume of traffic generated by the expansion of GPRS increases the pressure on the GSM network (the two technologies share), which is a powerful argument for the launch of the new UMTS network once and for all.
Rates
Take for example an email account accessed via mobile phone. Whenever necessary, or desired, verify the existence - or not - of new messages, simply asked the network to access the box generates minimal traffic around 2 KB (one for sending the request for verification and one for receipt of information), based on the principle that no new messages. If you are an occasional user has not subscribed to GPRS and GPRS no plan, the cost of displaying a web page as the homepage of Moving from Mobile, could cost about 0.48 at Movistar and more than 0.4 euros in Amena and Vodafone (all rates apply operators to six decimal places).
If you were an average user, those who need to connect to the network almost every day from anywhere, we recommend that you subscribe to any of the bonds to the operators available to its customers. For the analysis we present below we use data from more economic bonds that each carrier offers. Obvious the savings created when viewing our home page. With Amena, having contracted Megabono about 0.15 will cost 10 euros; hiring Movistar bond 1 will also cost you € 0.49 and 2 Megabyte Bono hiring of Vodafone, the price will be 0.49.
This data comes to legitimizing a number of conclusions can be summarized in two rather simple ideas that the GPRS can be an alternative to traditional Internet access to email, not as, navigation and access to content is even more elaborate very expensive. So, for now, we prefer to use the media "lifetime" to visit our favorite websites.
But let us not delude, GPRS is a technology for mass consumption, at least for the time being, however, the substantive issue in Mobile Phones, we want to discuss in this article, is whether practical to change the traditional Internet Cable GPRS systems for mobile networks. Will we retire once and for all our old 56k modem to a cell phone and our home PC for a brand new laptop?
