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Re:Former Owner of T-Mobile Store Guilty of $25M Scheme to U... by PragmaticPulp on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @11:30PM (#32327336)
FYI, in the United States carriers are required to unlock phones after contract periods are up, or after 1-year for subsidized prepaid phones: https://www.fcc.gov/general/cell-phone-unlocking

It's been like this since 2014. I actually wonder how many of the people using this guy's service simply didn't know that they could get their phones unlocked for free from the carrier (assuming they were actually paying their bills for their postpaid subsidized locked phone).

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Re:Former Owner of T-Mobile Store Guilty of $25M Scheme to U... by u801e on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @11:39PM (#32327395)
The fact that carriers are still selling locked phones is really strange. Imagine if Verizon, Comcast, or Cox sold locked Dell or Lenovo laptops at a discount and only allowed you to connect to the internet using their ISP service.
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Re:Former Owner of T-Mobile Store Guilty of $25M Scheme to U... by Cerium on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @11:44PM (#32327424)
They probably would try if they didn't already have monopolies on most markets they operate in.
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