TOKYO (AFX) - NTT DoCoMo Inc will stop accepting new customers for its PHS (personal handyphone system) service as early as April and withdraw from the business altogether in two to three years, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported, without citing sources.
The company is likely to incur a special loss of 60 bln yen to dispose of and scale down facilities for the PHS operations, it said.
NTT DoCoMo will try to encourage current PHS subscribers who use data communications to use its FOMA 3G service by raising the transmission speeds of its FOMA 3G (third-generation) cell phones, the business daily said.
At the end of December, DoCoMo's PHS subscribers stood at 1.39 mln, down about a third from the peak in September 1997, it said.
DoCoMo's PHS operations incurred an operating loss of 35.5 bln yen on revenue of 75.7 bln yen in the year to March 2004.
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The company is likely to incur a special loss of 60 bln yen to dispose of and scale down facilities for the PHS operations, it said.
NTT DoCoMo will try to encourage current PHS subscribers who use data communications to use its FOMA 3G service by raising the transmission speeds of its FOMA 3G (third-generation) cell phones, the business daily said.
At the end of December, DoCoMo's PHS subscribers stood at 1.39 mln, down about a third from the peak in September 1997, it said.
DoCoMo's PHS operations incurred an operating loss of 35.5 bln yen on revenue of 75.7 bln yen in the year to March 2004.
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