Europe:
The first UK vending machines selling mobile phones were unveiled
by Vodafone in Manchester earlier this week.
The mobile giant
is reported to have put two trial QuickPhone kiosks in its retail
branches in Manchester's Market Street and Trafford Centre, where
they will be well placed to target the city's student population.
If the trial is
successful it could pave the way for future deployments in airports,
train stations and motorway service stations.
At the moment,
the kiosks offer Sim cards from £5 and a number of different
handsets priced at between £30 and £50, which are understood
to be pre-pay models.