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In this article, let’s explore the various types of internet access for mobile devices such as mobile phones. Nowadays, internet access via mobile phones is rapidly rising where, even most of the financial institutions offer their services via mobile phones (in the form of internet access through a mobile web browser) while making the customer’s life easy. One thing you need to note however is that although the internet access type varies, accessing interface is the same for all the types. That means all these mobile devices use a mobile web browser for viewing web content.

GPRS is the first method that I would like to explore in detail. This has been there in mobile industry for a while now and we don’t see many people grabbing this technology with a lot of enthusiasm currently. Maybe its limitations frustrate users where users experience more bandwidth in other types of internet access. Depending on hardware, the maximum data transfer speeds may vary from 26 kbps to 52 kbps for GPRS. When there are large attachments in your emails, you may waste lot of time for downloading them with this technology. In contrast to the conventional charging mechanism of billing for the time spent, with GPRS you will get charged for information transferred; I.e. the number of kilobytes.

High Speed Circuit Switched Data (HSCSD) offers users a dedicated bandwidth for internet access. HSCSD’s ability to support high speed real time data transfers makes this type unique. It is the same reason which makes this service popular among the professionals who use critical services.

Still one of the hottest topics in mobile industry is 3G (Third Generation) technology. After GPRS era, 3G had the most popularity and reception from users. With 3G, mobile communication techniques and internet access was revolutionized. With this new technology, a new infrastructure was needed to be laid out by the operators. Frankly speaking, this was the first real change in mobile industry after the invention of the mobile phone. With 3G, mobile users are able to share multimedia content and obviously it helps users to feed multimedia content to websites. 3G can offer a variety of services as it supports both packet and circuit switched services. Also unlike any of above types, 3G offers the highest transfer rates up to 384 kbps.

Having said all that, I assume that the next time you want to look for a solution for your mobile internet access; you have some indicators to choose the ideal one from.