This GPRS Roaming Exchange (GRX) service, enables mobile operators to offer users secure, high-speed wireless access to data services, such as email or corporate Intranet access, wherever they are in the world.
Just as users are accustomed to accessing GSM-enabled voice services when they travel abroad, GPRS Roaming will provide seamless, always on access to data services at speeds significantly higher than GSM. It will also give operators the opportunity to develop value-added subscriber services.
Cable & Wireless GRX, which is currently undergoing a trial with Vodafone across Europe, is one of the first commercial GRX services to be launched. It is available in more than 70 countries worldwide and is one of only three GRXs to be qualified by the North American Alliance of the GSM Association to provide GPRS roaming in North America. Cable & Wireless is also in active discussions with other GRX carriers to establish interconnect agreements that will extend the reach of its GRX service and the number of operators that it can connect with.
Cable & Wireless has used its expertise in IP infrastructure and services and established relationships with mobile operators worldwide to offer the most effective GRX service to operator customers, said Nick Jeffery, Executive Vice President, Markets Group, Cable & Wireless in a media statement. GPRS, and eventually 3G services, are set to make the anytime, anywhere mobile office a reality, and our IP interconnect services will be a crucial element of this development.
