Right, it's not "making the rest of society's phone bills higher", it hurts the stock gains for shareholders. That's what I meant by "what about muh corporate profits"
I think in the long run if fraud rates were reduced substantially that competitive pressures among the telecoms (given that they all basically have the same coverage) would cause prices to go down. I offered the shareholders thing as another argument because most people are shareholders because of their 401K and given that there's no free lunch someone had to pay for the $25 million this guy made.