The China Mobile GRPS wireless communication technology was adopted instead of the routine telephone dial mode in the collection and transmission of observation data of 22 automatic weather stations.The results of the trial run in meteorological operation indicate that GPRS communication is of great advantages,such as real-time online transmitting,rapid logon,reasonable fee,easy monitoring,being safe and reliable,etc.Especially while meteorological data transmission interrupted suddenly or frequently,GPRS performed well.GPRS communication is suitable to the collection and transmission of observation data of the mesoscale automatic weather station network.According to the development prospects of GPRS,the future application in the(meteorological) service is also discussed.