Hard Blocking:

Hard blocking describes the situation when NO Radio Resources are assigned after the
GPRS/EDGE service request in Data Services and access to Data services is denied
!or instance" if we consider a case when a user requests resource for Data Service access
and no resources at all are assigned" this is characteri#ed as Hard $locking
Soft Blocking:
Soft blocking considered the scenarios that allocated channel nu%bers doesn&t %eet the
'S %ulti ti%e slot ca(abilit) after data service has established ie Soft blocking where
users are assigned a *POR+,ON- of the resources the) request
Hard blocking %eans NO RESOURCES AVAILABLE FOR ASSIGNMENT and Soft
$locking %eans ARTIAL AVAILABILIT! OF RESOURCES