What is EDGE?

[The_Unbeliever]

What is EDGE?

Do you get charged the same rate as for GPRS/3G?

Thanks

Libs

 

[fxit_man]

EDGE - Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution is a digital cellphone technology that allows increasing data transmission rates to two or three times faster than that of GPRS, which enables customers to access the Internet and email from their cellphones.

http://www.vodacom.co.za/services/mobile_data/gprs_edge.jsp

 

[Ivan...]

yeah its all pretty much at the same rate.
EDGE maxes out at 236.8 kbps.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Does Vodacom, Cellc and MTN offer EDGE?

One last question - is EDGE coverage in overall good? Or restricted to 3G coverage areas?

 

[HavocXphere]

Edge coverage is more or less everywhere.

I average about 9KB/s on it. (If I'm not using adsl).

Way more stable than 3G because the signal is usually fairly evenly spread.

All three offer it. Its kinda like gprs+.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Thanks

 

[Ivan...]

everyone offers EDGE, you should find it in most areas AFAIK, if an area has 3G it should have EDGE coverage, but not always the other way around, if an area has EDGE coverage it has GPRS, but not always the other way around...wheres a Ven Diagram when I need one