You’ve had a nice run, 2G, but the time has come to start looking beyond to bigger, better and (most importantly) faster things. With LTE just over the horizon, NTT DoCoMo is proactively announcing the phase out of its mova and DoPa 2G services. The 2G mova services encompass car phone and Pre-Call prepaid — which got their roots in March of 1993 — while the 2G DoPa packet communication service sprouted up four years after that. Both of these longtime favorites will be disconnected at the close of 2012, with the company noting that “associated services and related billing plans will also be terminated at the same time.” Anyone still relying on this stuff will be contacted sometime over the next three years to ensure that they aren’t shocked and surprised when December 2012 arrives, and they’ll be encouraged to make the not-at-all-painful shift to FOMA 3G services. It’s better in the fast lane, we promise.
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