key word there is "owner" do you "own" a (heavily) subsidized phone distributed by a specific carrier? yes some people will argue, if you paid for it in a sto

key word there is "owner" do you "own" a (heavily) subsidized phone distributed by a specific carrier? yes some people will argue, if you paid for it in a store it is "owned" guess it all comes down to when corporations start asking the government to jail people over this