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General Packet Radio Service is a technology that allows your phone to transfer data at moderate speeds.

The benefits of GPRS

GPRS lets you send data faster than over a GSM data network, and it's also a lot more efficient. But "data" sounds pretty vague, right?

How GPRS works

To use GPRS, you need a phone that supports it, a subscription from your network operator that supports GPRS, and the proper settings.

General Packet Radio Service does what it says: it sends "packets" of data over a radio wave (on the GSM network). Packet switching works like a jigsaw puzzle: your data is split into many pieces, then sent over the network and reassembled at the other end. GPRS is just one of the ways to transport these jigsaw puzzles.