November 7, 2007
Vending Machine Sells Cell Phones In Las Vegas Airport
Travelers walking through Terminal 2 in Las Vegas' McCarran Airport this week are greeted by a huge vending machine shaped like a mobile phone. Information Week reports.
According to 011 Mobile, the telecom provider that operates the machine, many people are pumping money into the vending machine to purchase mobile phones and SIM cards before they hit the town's slot machines.
"It's a very new concept and it catches their eye," said Shane McFarland, 011's director of corporate relations, in an interview. "They go right to the screens. They can purchase everything from lower price-point phones all the way up to PDAs." What really clinches sales, though, is the price of calls -- 1.5 cents a minute to the U.K and not much more to other international points.
... The touch screen displays on the vending machine are set up to operate in 12 different languages, although most of the traffic so far has been from English and Spanish speakers. "
Other cell phone vending machines
Picture from LetsGoMobile.
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