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Article: A break in the GPRS clouds. (Insight).
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- Wireless Week
- Article date:
- March 11, 2002
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GSM operators have suffered a lot of grief for their delays in getting GPRS services to market, not to mention the technology's slower-than-promised data speeds and lack of applications, which have hindered customer acceptance and carriers' wished-for revenue.
The outlook isn't totally bleak, however. Pyramid Research recently completed an evaluation of the technology's progress and prospects in Western Europe. The Cambridge, Mass.-based firm says its basic findings are, on balance, sunny. "The main focus is that GPRS is much more than a stutter step along the evolution to 3G," says Jonathan Bell, a senior analyst at Pyramid Research.
The study, "GPRS: ...