GSM Phone Maintenance and Repair Paper 2, May/June 2015

Question 2

 

  1.  Explain the term GPRS.
  2. State one difference between SIMlock and netlock.

Candidates were able to give only the meaning of the acronym GPRS in question 2(a). 98% of the candidates could not answer question 2(b) correctly.

 

Observation

The expected answers are:

 

  1. GPRS means General Packet Radio Service. It is a wireless data service technology  available on phones that need to be activated to access the internet.                               

(b)(i) SIMlock: This refers to a SIM card customised to a phone such that no other SIM card can work with the phone.
(ii) Netlock: This is done by the service provider to certain phones such that SIM cards      from other network providers cannot work with such phones.