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Unless you run the country through executive orders.
With American-made phones and American call centres, right? Right?
“Good morning and thanks for calling MAGA Mobile. Please listen to the options and make your selection for the best possible service. For Spanish, press 423 and wait for a knock on the door. For English, god bless Trump…”
Why did I read this in an Indian accent?
Because you have a fetish for that very very hot Indian accent? (Indian accent)
… "For English, say ‘God bless Trump’ …”
Fixed that for you /s (… I really want off this apocalyptic ride)
They already tried that with the ‘Freedom phone’ and it was a massive scam, so this is quite on brand for him.
I’m sure it will ‘compete’ in the same way as all his other failed businesses.
See, here’s the thing when you’re the President. You can just have your FCC chair shut them down. You can actively quash literally any boundaries to being a monopoly, and nobody can do anything about it (from a legal or regulatory standpoint).
If he actually launches a Trump phone service, it’s going to be a MVNO that just piggy backs off the main operators’ infrastructure. It’s not like he or his idiot sons are going to buy spectrum and build towers.
He wouldn’t really be competing with T-Mobile, Verizon, or AT&T. He’d be competing with Boost Mobile and companies like that.
Maybe they are planning to take back that spectrum they gave to Boost/Dish on a pinky-promise that they’d actually become a competitive network, during the Sprint and T-Mobile antitrust case.
Which would fit with the FCC’s increasingly mob-like behaviour under Trump.
Wasn’t Starlink experimenting with phone calls? Could be a deal with Elon.
Yeah, but I doubt they’re close to having the capacity to offer full 5G service like a traditional carrier. I have T-Mobile (Deutsche Telekom‘s US subsidiary) and they have a deal with Starlink but it’s (a) in beta and (b) limited in what you can do. Unless things have changed, even when it launches, it’ll be just LTE text and voice and you need a pretty modern phone.
So, it’s not like a drop in replacement for a land-based plan where you get internet and stuff. Plus, Trump and his kids aren’t going to do any of the hard work. Even before his presidency, “Trump” was just a licensing brand and now it’s a pretty shitty brand. It’s not like the family was running Trump Steaks and packing boxes for shipment or whatever.
Makes sense.
You’re missing the point. The admin has full control over spectrum licensing. This means Trump could easily have the FCC just revoke all other spectrum licenses for cellphone comms, and just forcibly seize those towers. Don’t look at it like it’s going to operate like a corporation, because I promise you it won’t.
A president is allowed to found companies?
Either way, he sure has time on his hands.
more illegal shit
Thank God the swamp is gone.
The word “could” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence
No matter what your stance on Trump is, you must agree that it isn’t completely outside the realm of possibilities.
He took the KISS method of advertising/marketing. Slap the brand name on everything you can to squeeze out as much money from the "fan base"as possible
Damn he’s milking every penny. Did he just discover late stage capitalism?
It’s gonna be labeled as some private cell service but it actually logs everything you do in their servers and use it for some nefarious purpose.
o look, more illegal shit. great.
Lol, yeah this doesn’t scream android phone full of spyware at all! It’s definitely not going to just be a rebranded Chinese made phone that we assemble in like Louisiana and can say is “American made”
Nah. He’ll just have the sticker that says “American made” made in America.
Worse he’s promising that they’ll eventually be made in America. Just like he promised a new health care plan
Could compete how? He gonna buy infrastructure? He gonna be an MVNO? (None of whom are really competitive with the big players because a lot of them are either regional, have to buy batches of data and minutes from the big three, or have pretty bad service). And who’s going to buy it? His supporters? I doubt that. This is just another grift.
The picture I saw of it looks 100% like the standard practice of rebranding a terrible iPhone-like android device that could only be manufactured in China. Just take a look at “luxury” phones of the early 2020s. Absolutely 100% a scam by idiots for idiots.
Mkbhd: Escobar Phone https://youtu.be/O8FJSjy3bXA
Another article tracked down the phone and it’s just a Tmobile REVVL in a different case. They pointed out that you can buy one for $169 while Trump is selling his for $500-$600.
I would bet A LOT of money that all of your messages would be viewable by him
