"PHS" withdraws from the Japanese market

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Xiao Zhan for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, April 3 (Xinhua)-- Japan ended its last remaining handheld radiotelephone system (Personal Handy-phone System,PHS) wireless communication service on Friday, 28 years after the system was first put into commercial use.

Handheld wireless phone, also known as "PHS" in China, has withdrawn from the mainstream communication market and has been mentioned in the recent popular TV series "Storm".

The Japanese TV series Softbank Corp. of ▲ Tuyuan officially terminated its PHS service on March 31. The service was commercially available in 1995, and by 1997, PHS had about 7 million users in Japan at a price lower than that for mobile phones.

Softbank Corp. ended voice calls and e-mail services for ordinary wireless local phone users as early as the end of January 2021, while the retained vending machine sales revenue management and credit card settlement services for coin-operated parking lots were completely terminated on March 31.

Although PHS is a mobile phone, it uses a fixed telephone network, and the service was officially withdrawn from China in 2014. It is worth mentioning that China's "PHS" technology is introduced from Japan, CTOnews.com partners can check the detailed history in the relevant articles.

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