In July, AT&T Wireless became the first US carrier to offer customers advanced wireless data services when it launched its new GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) / GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) service for business customers in Seattle.
The company plans to launch GSM/GPRS service in Detroit within several weeks and will deploy GSM/GPRS in markets representing approximately 40% of the population it serves this year and markets that cover 100% by the end of 2002.
Not content with this the company is also planning to deploy 3G services, providing even faster data speeds, using EDGE (Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution) in the latter part of 2002 and UMTS starting in 2003.
