GPRS' Next Challenge: Billing

摘要

Billing practices will make a big difference in the successful marketing of mobile data services. General packet radio service (GPRS) in itself is not a revolution—it is simply a packet-data technology using existing GSM infrastructure. The fixed networks have been running services based on the packet approach for some time, yet it is the mobility of data usage that is creating such a stir—the thought of Internet access everywhere. What will make GPRS most appealing to the consumer? The applications that run over it and how they are billed.