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hereandthere
the PHS system is great, yet suffers from an image problem. If you need phone, it is great... if you want to surf the web, you should look somewhere else. I have enjoyed the low costs since the beginning... I don't think they will disappear since this is the system that is used by doctors and hospitals... and seems to be gaining a bit in the student use since parents are finally getting tired of paying outrageous bills for their kid's phone.
chuckers
PHS does have great sound quality and their early problems of not being able to hand off to the next antenna if you are going above walking speed is long since a thing of the past. It would be a shame if it were to go away.
lunchmeat
Peachy.
minello7
This is the company ,the saviour of Jal? ,Kazuo Inamori,the charismatic 78-year-old entrepreneur failed to save.206 billion yen in liabilities, good management here.Are you watching JAL employees and shareholders,sorry I forgot Kyocera 30% of the shares,does Kyocera have any shares in JAL? I wonder.
Damien15
Yes!! death to arms dealers. Will group is evil!!
bisoy
Sad. I was a wilcom user for 4 years and saved a lot from unnecessary keitai charges. I only changed to au coz my job changed requiring me to travel to the country side where Willcom reception was poor.
kyoken
Finally a reason to get an iPhone. Though I was very satisfied with PHS.
jason6
VERY poor management. You are in a deflationary economy where people are looking to spend less money, concentrating on budget goods. In these times, a mobile phone is almost considered a necessity too. Yet Willcom couldn't capitalize on this opportunity.. what were they doing??
The758
Willcom rolled out the red carpet for eMobile and allowed them two years to take over the mobile broadband market. I switched over to eMobile last year and pay much less, have MUCH faster internet and got a good netbook for 100 yen.
Sorry, buy cry me a river, Willcom.
saru_au
4 sure, Willcom dropped the ball, dumb twits at the top drunk at the wheel again.
don't bail out these twits, move on.