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Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution
Sign in to saveAlso known as EDGE, Enhanced GPRS, EGPRS, IMT Single Carrier, IMT-SC, Enhanced Data rates for Global Evolution
digital mobile phone technology that allows improved data transmission rates as a backward-compatible extension of GSM
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- influenced by
- Global System for Mobile Communications
- complies with
- IMT-2000
- short name
- EDGE
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Encyclopedic overview
EDGE sign shown in notification bar on an Android-based smartphone
Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE), also known as 2.75G and under various other names, is a 2G digital mobile phone technology for packet switched data transmission. It is part of the GSM family and represents an upgrade to General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), also known as "2.5G". EDGE is standardized by the 3GPP and offers speeds close to 3G technology, hence the name "2.75G".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.