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Motorola and MobileOne (M1) demo WAP over GPRS in Singapore[June 7th 2000] Motorola claims leadership in the General PacketRadio Service (GPRS) arena by demonstrating GPRS at the CommunicAsia 2000, in Singapore. Motorola and M1 are joining together to demonstrate M1's current wireless internet offering - "Mi world" - over GPRS."Mi world" brings a host of information and services accessed through the mobile phone, bringing the internet content right to our palm (your mobile phone). Complete with Mi Times, Mi Money, Mi Mall, Mi Mail, Mi Fun, Mi Organizer and Mi Surf. Currently Motorola is the only supplier worldwide who can provide a complete end-to-end commercial GPRS network solution including Internet infrastructure technology from Cisco Systems Inc. and GPRS-capable handsets. "Personal access to the Internet will become predominantly wireless in the near future and M1's wireless portal, Mi World is exactly positioned to meet the lifestyle needs of our customers in the age of the wireless Internet. The speed of data transmission will be one of the key drivers of the success of this service and our data speed of 14.4 kbps is currently the fastest mobile Internet access here. This speed will be pumped up considerably when our already installed GPRS system, which has the potential to run data speed up to 10 times the current rate, is launched later this year," said M1's Chief Executive Officer, Neil Montefiore. "For Singapore and for M1, the arrival of GPRS is a natural step in the evolutionary process towards the convergence of wireless and the Internet," said Steve Shanck, vice president and general manager of NSS's South Asia Network Solutions Division. "M1's adoption of GPRS technology continues to demonstrate its pioneering spirit in bringing the best in wireless technology to its many subscribers," Shanck added. GPRS technology provides high-speed packet data transport service over existing GSM networks. It allows subscribers to send and receive packet information via a mobile terminal on the GSM radio channels to other packet networks such as the Internet or corporate Intranets, based on IP networking techniques. GPRS opens the mobile market to a wealth of data applications, including e-commerce, and email. With GPRS, which is Phase 1 of Motorola's new Aspira communications architecture vision, the path to 3G will be seamless. New services can be added quickly and the end-to-end user experience will be exceptional. The Aspira communications architecture vision from Motorola combines voice, data and multimedia into one broadband IP-based network. This total end-to-end network solution encompasses transport networks, applications, services and endpoint devices. Motorola's GPRS infrastructure is being deployed in the UK, Germany, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, and Turkey, among others. Motorola now exports commercial GPRS network equipment to 15 countries. Motorola is the only vendor to have enabled live GPRS calls on full end-to-end equipment in multiple countries. Technology Notes GPRS -- General Packet Radio Service GPRS, which has been standardized by ETSI as part of the GSM Phase 2+ development, represents the first implementation of packet switching within GSM, which is essentially a circuit-switched technology. Rather than sending a continuous stream of data over a permanent connection, packet switching only utilizes the network when there is data to be sent. The implementation of GPRS will bring tremendous benefits to GSM network operators. It brings IP capability to the GSM network for the first time and enables connection to a wide range of public and private data networks using industry standard data protocols such as TCP/IP and X.25. GPRS is extremely efficient in its use of scarce spectrum resources and enables GSM operators to introduce a wide range of value added services for market differentiation. GPRS is ideal for "bursty" type data applications such as email or Internet access, and can also enable "virtual permanent connection" to data sources, allowing information to arrive rather than being sought. This cannot be achieved using standard circuit- switched networks. By upgrading their networks to GPRS, existing GSM operators will have third generation (3G) capable networks, as UMTS will use packet switching technology. http://horizongprs.motorola.com |
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