The power of GPRS is a yet untapped technology. We are creating offerings for our customers that are convenient, reliable and can build on the changing dynamics of a wireless society. Mounting demand for mobile access to non-voice services and the Internet calls for new technologies with more bandwidth. GPRS is a packet-switched data service for mobile networks. Scarce radio resources can be used more efficiently, and operators benefit from multiple utilization of channels and time slots.
Mobile communications are a burgeoning sector.
Last year, the growth rate was about 50 percent with more than 85 million users in the US alone. Data transmission handled by mobile technology is set to increase even more sharply in the future. The general trend toward convergence, which is enabling data and voice networks, fixed and mobile networks, means that mobile multimedia communication will also become increasingly important. Over the next five years, an annual increase of 70 percent is anticipated. By the year 2005, multimedia should make up 60 percent of total mobile communications - with more than 1 billion subscribers expected worldwide.