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EDGE (Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution)


Term
EDGE (Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution)

Abbreviation
EDGE

Definition
EDGE (Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution) is a digital mobile phone technology that allows improved data transmission rates as a backward-compatible extension of GSM. EDGE is considered a pre-3G radio technology and was deployed on GSM networks beginning in 2003 in the U.S.

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