Pete Moss is waiting for his girlfriend. He’s sitting outside at Big Mouth Café on Acland Street in St Kilda. He has just purchased a new type of pre-paid mobile. “Time”, a new mobile phone carrier, has just brought out these new disposable phones. You purchase the phone for $50 and receive that amount in credit and get a mobile number that expires with the credit. And after the $50 is used up you simply throw the phone away, like those old disposable cameras. Handy for his type of work. Pete’s a drug dealer who doesn’t want to be a…
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