Gprs???

GT60

Hi
Please can some one tell me what GPRS is as one of our boys has hold of a PAG Nokia C2 phone and used £10 in credit
We are on Orange we have asked orange but gave up trying to explain it to them!
Thanks date & time event typedialled number/
descriptionduration/
vol(Kb)cost (?)23/03/11 19:21GPRSap-prepaidsessio41.00.1223/03/11 19:19GPRSap-prepaidsessio1106.04.3323/03/11 19:17GPRSap-prepaidsessio1437.05.61

DUTR

GPRS is the road that mobile data travels along, WAP is the car on that road.

Techhead_2

What it means is that he has been using mobile data, for example the mobile internet, emails etc

GT60

i have just found out he was playing a game that came preinstalled.

So why is it using GPRS and how do i stop it from using GPRS?

grumbler

a) Read the manual and switch it off in the phone.
OR
b) Call network and ask them to do this on their side.

Rusty!

DUTR wrote: »

GPRS is the road that mobile data travels along, WAP is the car on that road.

Not really.

WAP is long, long dead. Thank god.

GPRS = General Packet Radio Service. A form of mobile data.

Better than 2G data, not as good as 3G data, but it tends to be used as a catch-all name for mobile data now.

diamonds

WAP was mobile 2G dial up, GPRS was 2.5G data (no dial-up), 3G was data upto 384kbps, 3.5G is now -Telstra Australia Next G mobile lead the world in 3.5G being upto 20MBPS, 4G is next

DUTR

Rusty! wrote: »

Not really.

WAP is long, long dead. Thank god.

GPRS = General Packet Radio Service. A form of mobile data.

Better than 2G data, not as good as 3G data, but it tends to be used as a catch-all name for mobile data now.

diamonds wrote: »

WAP was mobile 2G dial up, GPRS was 2.5G data (no dial-up), 3G was data upto 384kbps, 3.5G is now -Telstra Australia Next G mobile lead the world in 3.5G being upto 20MBPS, 4G is next

That is how I understand it, WAP is devised basically for mobile phones, there are other protocols like html, the gprs can appear in different speeds whether it be on 2g to 4g .
I will re-check though :beer:

DUTR

just checked in between the break of ITV the chase

GPRS and WAP are very2 different. in analogy, GPRS is the highway and WAP is the vehicle that uses the highway.
See the difference?
Most WAP-enabled phones uses WAP to access the Internet. But, PDAs usually equipped with full OS and full web browser suite which allow the access to the Web using the standard HTTP and HTTPS protocols.
BTW, you don't want to access the Web using WAP - too "texty", if you know what I mean.


from http://www.computing.net/answers/pda/wap-vs-gprs-an-explanation/1843.html


But I'm semi certain someone on this forum gave a similar explanation.

lucylucky

As far as the OP is concerned son has been using data which has eaten up son's credit on phone.

sillygoose

A lot of 'free' games that come on mobiles are a con, the 1st levels are free but when you progress up a level they connect to the internet to get other levels.

Alternatively some connect to the internet to fetch adverts to put into the game.

You may be able to delete it off altogether.

PS some mobile companies, especially on PAYG handsets make disabling internet access deliberately hard or impossible, then they put lots of things on it that will make it connect up, as they want to sell you ring tones, music etc etc. You just have to be careful! (or get sim-free phone that is unbranded by the network and will take any sim and put the PAYG sim in it then you have control)