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DEFINITION - 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).

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CONTRIBUTORS: Lior Baruch
LAST UPDATED: 17 Oct 2008

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More resources from around the web:
- "Moving toward EDGE" offers Ericsson's perspective.
- John Skourias provides an "Overview of the Global System for Mobile Communications."
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