WILLCOM cut base stations by 4 to 50 thousand stations, SOFTBANK BASE station together

It became clear that WILLCOM, which SOFTBANK is working as a parent company and is working on restructuring, will reduce the number of base stations by 4 to 50 thousand stations.

WILLCOM, PHS base station reduced by 30% - annual reduction of 30 billion yen: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun


Asahi.com (Asahi Newspaper): WILLCOM, PHS base station reduced by 30% - annual reduction of 30 billion yen - Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun news - digital


According to the report of the Asahi Shimbun that received the articles from the Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun and the Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, WILLCOM cuts PHS base stations by about 30% from the current 160,000 stations, falling by 4 to 50 thousand stations It is said to be between 11 and 120 thousand stations.

This is a measure to reduce the maintenance cost of PHS base stations costing 55 billion yen a year to 250 to 35 billion yen and lead to management improvement, already started some work from March this year. Moreover, by placing a PHS dedicated base station at the tower base station of SOFTBANK MOBILE 's 3 rd cell phone, it will reduce the burden of base station rents, electricity charges, line charges etc.

Although the coverage area of ​​PHS base station 1 station stayed at about 1 kilometer in radius even recently, it was a problem that it was not so wide, but by placing a PHS dedicated base station in a 40 meter high tower base station, the radius Because it will be able to cover 2 kilometers, WILLCOM will proceed with the installation, select unnecessary base stations, and plan to complete all work by the summer of 2014.

By the way, WILLCOM will be free "another free campaign" where the monthly fee of the second and third will be free when contracting one, and calls within 10 minutes free of charge regardless of the other party will be free for 500 times a month " However in May 2011 it recorded a net increase of more than 100 thousand contracts for the first time in 13 years and eleven months due to measures such as "fixed amount".

With PHSSet sale with SOFTBANK MOBILE 3G lineIn addition, the number of subscriptions of the SOFTBANK Group as a whole has been boosted, and in June 2011Number of contracts in the entire group exceeded 30 milliondoing.