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Re:Former Owner of T-Mobile Store Guilty of $25M Scheme to U... by ars on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @11:23PM (#32327293)
That's how T-Mobile does it - unlike other companies, once you pay off the phone your bill goes down.

It's literally a monthly payment plan for a phone, and they lock it until you pay it in full.

I see nothing bad about this at all. It's not like in the past where they lock your phone forever - with T-Mobile as soon as you fully pay for it they unlock it.

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Re:Former Owner of T-Mobile Store Guilty of $25M Scheme to U... by markdown on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @04:18PM (#32336247)
Imagine if your car dealer could restrict which roads you could drive on until you paid it off. Or if Best Buy restricted your internet usage to a limited number of websites until you paid it off.
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