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At last week's two-day GPRS Asia conference, several speakers admitted GPRS data rates would not be two to three times faster than existing rates of less than 9.6 Kbps. At least, that was what handset makers and manufacturers of telecommunication equipment promised. In reality, GPRS isn't going to be a lot faster. Frank Kocsis, business development manager at German telecom software and services provider, Software and Systems, said as GPRS was a packet-switching technology, resources would be shared and so true speeds would not reach promised data rates. At less than 20 Kbps, services such as audio streaming and bandwidth-hungry games would be limited.