Lots of telco bootlicking and "what about muh corporate profits" in this thread on "hacker" news.
There are absolutely worthwhile discussions to be had about the ethics of dealing with abusive or greedy corporations, or about whether rent-to-own contracts are predatory.
But just because the community doesn't immediately jump to say "telcos suck so stealing your phone is a moral imperative" doesn't mean commenters are groveling at the feet of T-Mobile.
this implies that the price of a phone bill is connected to the price of operating the service. The price is set by what they think they can get, not how much it costs to run.
I am not denying that telecoms is an oligopoly, I'm just saying this guy is no Robinhood. I think there still is some competition for pricing among cellular providers especially if you consider MVNOs, but even if this fraud had no effect on the cost of cell service, shareholders in any of the major telecom companies, which probably include the majority of adults by virtue of their inclusion on the S&P 500, are out billions of dollars of dividends thanks to the fraud these unlocking services enable.