No Rock And Roll Fun

HANGING ON THE TELEPHONE: BT - in what is either a bit of a stunt or else a glorious, doomed gesture - is planning to allow music to be downloaded directly from phoneboxes to portable players. The first wave of this innovation is going to be at the information kiosk sort of box, but the company has made some sort of vague suggestion that it could be rolled out to other phoneboxes at some point, if it all works, and so on.

We're not quite sure who this is aimed at: people who suddenly get seized wiith the urge to download Catherine Zeta-Jones and David Essex's single, and can't wait until they get home, and don't have a mobile service which will let them do it, who happen to have all the correct cables with them for hooking up their machine...