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Article: What's holding back GPRS services?
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- New Straits Times
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- June 6, 2001
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Yu Wui Wui; Cordelia Lee
New Straits Times
06-06-2001
What's holding back GPRS services?
Byline: Yu Wui Wui; Cordelia Lee
Edition: 2*
Section: News & Analysis
LOCAL operators are blaming the current delay for 2.5G service on the lack of GPRS (general packet radio service) handsets. GPRS is said to be available locally early this year, but to date, only Time dotCom has launched its TimeCel GPRS service.
Maxis Communications Berhad's senior general manager and head of mobile business Ross Chia said the company will be ready to offer GPRS once a sizeable quantity of attractive and stable GPRS handphones hit the market. And this is expected to be sometime in Q3 or Q4 this year. "This is one ...