'Personal Handy Phone' -- RIP

[Taro Toporific]

DoCoMo stops PHS development to focus on 3G
Thu September 11, 2003 10:23 PM ET
TOKYO, Sept 12 (Reuters)- NTT DoCoMo Inc 9437.T has stopped developing PHS (personal handyphone system) mobile handsets due to sluggish sales and high development costs...
Japanese-developed PHS lost its lustre in Japan as the phones cannot be connected well in moving vehicles, but lately they have regained some popularity as mobile operators have started to offer PHS as data communications devices at fixed rates. However, as 3G services take off, PHS business has become less important for some mobile operators

[GomiGirl]

the PHS system is still big business for KDDI... (well last time I checked)

[Taro Toporific]

the PHS system is still big business for KDDI... (well last time I checked)

It's a flat-rate PHS for both data transmission and voice services that has me interested...Saaaa, that's too good to be true. <sigh>

Thursday, April 25, 2002
Yozan Inc. will launch an Internet phone service, "Bit Phone," using a personal handyphone system (PHS). The company will start a field trial for the "Bit Phone/Bit Stand" services in Yokohama and several places in Tokyo with commercial services to be available in the fall at 4,000 locations in Tokyo. Sunao Takatori, president and CEO of Yozan, said, "Bit Phone will allow you to talk as much as you like at a fixed-rate." (AsiaBizTech)
http://mobilemediajapan.com/headline2.asp?page=PHS