Vodafone To Encourage Customers To Shift To 3G Handsets

JapanToday: Vodafone KK President Shiro Tsuda said Wednesday the Japanese unit of British cell phone service company Vodafone Group PLC will encourage its customers to shift to third-generation handsets for faster data communications. “Vodafone will offer its last 2G handset next year and no more 2G later,” Tsuda said.
Vodafone has lagged rivals NTT DoCoMo Inc and KDDI Corp in shifting to 3G handsets. Of some 15 million Vodafone customers, only about 300,000 are 3G handset users. By discontinuing the provision of new 2G handsets next year, Vodafone will encourage customers to shift to the 3G handsets and will concentrate business resources on 3G services, Tsuda said. (Kyodo News)
Vodafone To Encourage Customers To Shift To 3G Handsets [JapanToday]