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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.
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.
more illegal shit
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.
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
I just imagine he has a giant carnival wheel that’s marked with all sorts of reprehensible things to do and he just spins it whenever he’s bored and proceeds to executive order whatever he lands on
I would bet A LOT of money that all of your messages would be viewable by him
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.
Don’t forget the great Dish Wireless Network!
Sounds like a great way to surveil everyone.
Get cha them Chyna phones MAGA folks.
I wonder if he’ll use Starlink…
