Mitsubishi Electric withdrew from the mobile phone business, from "doc" to the "D" series annihilation

According to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun news report, Mitsubishi Electric decided to withdraw from the mobile phone business. It will stop canceling new development and cancel the release of the new model scheduled to be released in the spring.

This will cause the "D" series, which has long been loved by docomo users, to disappear.

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Mitsubishi Electric withdraws from mobile · Accelerates domestic electric machinery, business selection

According to this article, Mitsubishi Electric will officially announce today that it will withdraw from the mobile phone business. It has already decided to cancel new development and cancel sales of mobile phone terminals for NTT docomo that was scheduled for spring this year.

As a background to the withdrawal, although Mitsubishi Electric's mobile phone business revenues reached 1,000 billion yen a year, it has been said that the deficit has continued, and the unit sales also increased to 3.2 million units at the beginning of this fiscal year Although planned to ship, the plan has been revised down to 2.10 million in early February due to poor sales, and it is stated that he was forced to struggle.

Even though Mitsubishi Electric there may be people who wonder that it will be the "D" series rather than "M"According to Wikipedia, It is derived from Mitsubishi's symbolic mark (three diamond three Diamond).

· 11:55 postscript
An official announcement was made by Mitsubishi Electric. According to the following release, although we were working on the mobile phone business for 25 years since we began delivering automobile telephones to the elected public corporation in 1983 in the year 1983, while demand growth can not be anticipated due to maturity of the market, shipments Has declined, it seems that he decided to terminate the mobile phone business.

In addition, 600 employees of the mobile phone business say relocation centering on strategic business such as communication infrastructure business such as NGN and car multimedia business which will focus on the future in principle.

Notice on business restructuring