GPRS is the latest big thing in the telecommunications industry. Although it started slowly with few browsers prepared to access the net via their phones, the sending and receiving of images through cellular technology has dramatically increased with the advent of built in digital cameras on phones. This opened the market to the possibility of downloading web sites to phones.

GPRS facilitates instant connections whereby information can be sent or received immediately as the need arises, subject to radio coverage. No dial-up modem connection is necessary. This is why GPRS users are sometimes referred to be as being "always connected". Immediacy is one of the advantages of GPRS (and SMS) when compared to Circuit Switched Data. High immediacy is a very important feature for time critical applications such as remote credit card authorization where it would be unacceptable to keep the customer waiting for even thirty extra seconds.

GPRS facilitates several new applications that have not previously been available over GSM networks due to the limitations in speed of Circuit Switched Data (9.6 kbps) and message length of the Short Message Service (160 characters). GPRS will fully enable the Internet applications you are used to on your desktop from web browsing to chat over the mobile network. Other new applications for GPRS include file transfer and home automation- the ability to remotely access and control in-house appliances and machines.

Thus cell phones are no longer simply mobile telephones. Rather through GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) images get transmitted to the handset and scaled down web sites to fit a phone screen have become the new wave. Intoweb is one of the few web companies geared to develop such web sites.

We anticipate massive innovation in this industry and our R & D team is working closely with leaders in the telecommunications field so that Intoweb can bring you an optimal solution for your web site.