Editing Personal Digital Cellular (section)

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'''Personal Digital Cellular''' ('''PDC''') was a [[2G]] [[mobile computing|mobile]] [[telecommunications]] standard used exclusively in [[Japan]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2009}}

After a peak of nearly 80 million subscribers to PDC, it had 46 million subscribers in December 2005, and was slowly phased out in favor of 3G technologies like [[W-CDMA]] and [[CDMA2000]]. At the end of March 2012, the count had dwindled down to almost 200,000 subscribers. NTT Docomo shut down their network, mova, on April 1, 2012 at midnight.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nttdocomo.com/pr/2009/001428.html |title=DOCOMO to Terminate mova and DoPa 2G Services |year=2012 |access-date=March 1, 2012 |archive-date=February 29, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120229220629/http://www.nttdocomo.com/pr/2009/001428.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>