Tu-Ka finally ends mobile phone service today

Today, as of March 31, KDDI announced its mobile phone service "Tu-Ka (TU-KA)It seems to finish.

In 1994, the service started mainly in the Kanto, Tokai and Kansai areas, and at that time it was a revolutionary pre-paid service "PreKey", and by adopting MIDI, we realized an incoming high-quality ringing melody, Although it is Tu - Ka, which showed its unique presence, such as selling mobile phone handsets equipped with the first "bone conduction speaker", it will finally kick off its history.

Details are as below.
Tu-Ka Mobile phone service termination announcement | Tu-Ka | KDDI

According to this page, KDDI will terminate all Tu - Ka mobile phone services including prepaid services today. With the end of the service, the Tu - Ka mobile phone currently used will be automatically canceled at midnight on April 1, 2008, and it will be unusable.

Also, after the service is over, all services including not only the incoming / outgoing / incoming / outgoing / incoming / outgoing / incoming / outgoing / incoming / outgoing / incoming / outgoing / incoming / outgoing / incoming / outgoing / incoming phone / optional services such as EZweb or the like can not be used, We will not be able to do e-mail inquiries etc.

DoCoMo PHS has already finished service on January 7, is this also the trend of the times?