EDGE (Enhanced Data GSM Environment)
EDGE (Enhanced Data GSM Environment) is a faster version the Global System for Mobile (GSM) wireless service
designed to deliver data at rates up to 384 Kbps and enable the delivery of
multimedia and other broadband applications to mobile phone
and computer users. The EDGE standard is built on the existing GSM standard, using the same
time-division multiple access (TDMA) frame structure and existing cell arrangements. Ericsson
notes that its base stations can be updated with software.
EDGE became commercially available in 2001. It is regarded as an evolutionary standard on the
way to Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service (UMTS).
Contributor(s): Lior Baruch
This was last updated in June 2006
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