The UK to have vending machines for phones

Vodaphone plans to offer phone-dispensing vending machines across the UK this year. See The Scotsman - Business - Fife firm at the heart of Vodafone's revolutionary phone vending plans by reporter Jennifer Hill for details.

(That noise you just heard was fiction writers screaming as their manuscripts just got outstripped by innovation again. But, Mommy, why didn't the hero just buy a phone at a kiosk? Couldn't he have called spy headquarters that way?)