These 'inbetween' 2.5G upgrades for GSM networks include GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), HSCSD (High Speed Circuit Switched Data), and EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution), and all promise speeds somewhere between today's pitiful...
For instance, the GSM network, supported by EDGE (enhanced data rates for global evolution) and GPRS (general packet radio service), can now increase the bandwidth available. He said: "Firstly, the so-called 2.5G technologies, such as EDGE and GPRS...
To be really useful, especially to operators who hold both 2G and 3G licences and spectrum, the handsets would need to support GSM/GPRS, Edge and 3G. Edge stands for Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution.
Despite its ability to almost mirror the functionality of UMTS for a snip of the price, Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE) will not take-off in Europe as developers and operators have been sucked into the 3G hype, according to Virtyt...
EDGE (Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution) is sometimes referred to as 2.75G, sitting in the evolution path between 2.5G GSM/GPRS networks and 3G networks of the W-CDMA - or UMTS - flavour. With 3, Hutchison's UK greenfield mobile network, going...
But while the upgrade path for operators in Europe has been GSM to GPRS to EDGE (in some cases) and then to W-CDMA, some of those same operators and a handful of equipment makers will say CDMA2000 isn't the equivalent of W-CDMA and so the 3G...
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