It is packed with shops offering fashion items, mobile phones and souvenirs.

To sell service contracts, carriers offer phones at a sizable discount, but replacing them can cost hundreds of dollars.

Many cellular service providers offer phones that play music like Motorola's Rokr.

Technology companies have offered wireless phones, e-mail, Internet access and online video conferencing.

It is also about to start offering Four-badged cellular phones to Ford car buyers.

Crazy John's came to prominence when it was the first company in Australia to offer $1 mobile phones.

An increasing number of plans, though, offer free phones and a large amount of minutes that can be shared by family members.

Tourist offices throughout Portugal offer direct phones to the Green Line.

They will be able to offer phones that differentiate themselves from the rest of the market.

As for the issues of companies no longer offering phones, then I would be against that.