GPRS

GPRS stands for "General Packet Radio Service". It is a mobile data service available to users of GSM mobile phones (GSM or "Global System for Mobile Communications" is the most popular standard for mobile phones in the world, with over a billion currently in use, by people across more than 200 countries).

GPRS is a "packet-switched" service, which means that many users share the same transmission channel, only transmitting when they need to send data. The advantage is that they get the full bandwidth for each transaction (and none when they don't require it). In addition GPRS transmission can be billed per kilobytes of information sent or received, and not on a per minute basis. Thus when you are playing a game of chess you will only be billed for the move transmission, not the entire time you are engaged in playing the game.

You should contact your mobile phone provider for further information on GPRS. If you have purchased or upgraded your cellphone recently chances are that GPRS is installed and running on your set. Just try it out – install Fritz Mobile and log into the server for a game of chess.

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