CHAPTER FIVE - CONECTIVITY
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GPRS
GPRS connectivity is available on your PL3000, if
your PL3000 incorporates the GPRS modem, and you
have a GSM SIM card that has been assigned to GPRS
property. In addition, the GPRS connectivity needs that
your service provider has activated your SIM card on its cellular network. To check
whether or not your PL3000 includes the GPRS modem, see the description of the
‘NID WWAN’ applet on page 37 in the section ‘Control Panel Applets’.
To put the GPRS to use on your PL3000, you need first to install SIM card on
your PL3000. Having installed the card you have to configure the GPRS
parameters of your network operator for the GPRS connectivity using the ‘NID
WWAN’ applet. Once those operations are done with, the GPRS connectivity is
always available on your PL3000 when the PL3000 is up and running, assuming
that you have saved the settings permanently, and that PL3000 is able to receive
power level good enough from a base station on the cellular network of your
network operator.
Note!
There is also one thing you have to check out, when you put the
mobile option to use on your PL3000. If your device uses the basic battery
package, check that the battery package is 2600mAh in capacitance,
because the 2600mAh battery is designed in particular for use on the
PL3000 with the mobile option. If the battery is not 2600mAh (or greater)
in capacitance, you can temporarily use the older version of the battery
package until you have obtained a proper one.
Hint
: When you are choosing your GPRS mobile network operator, check
the following thing of the network operator’s GPRS implementation. One
quality aspect of GPRS connectivity is how the radio resources within a
cell are chosen to be allocated for GPRS data traffic and for mobile phone
calls. If the strategy for traffic engineering GPRS is not based on, for
example, a fix channel pool for GPRS traffic, the GPRS connectivity is
subject to breakdown within peak periods of speech calls. Typically, the
strategy for distributing channel capacity among GPRS traffic and voice
within a cell divides the mobile network operators into two camps:
favorable and unfavorable for GPRS networking although both the camps
provide GPRS network services.
