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.

If by "everyone" you mean the people stupid enough to buy a made-in-China Trump phone.

I would bet A LOT of money that all of your messages would be viewable by him

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.

Why do Americans feel the need to name state run shit with their own name?

It's not even state run he's just filling his pockets god damn

Wasn't Starlink experimenting with phone calls? Could be a deal with Elon.

At this point anyone who buys Trump-branded shit get what's coming to them. Dude is the most notorious grifter in history.

Why did I read this in an Indian accent?

Competitors severely penalized in 3...2...

The great wireless firewall of America.

But Carter had honor.

are you saying all my Trumpcoins, Trump NFTs, degrees from Trump university and deep frozen Trump steaks are worthless

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.

I've got bad news about your phone.

Who could forget the op-ed Carter wrote for The Onion.

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.

First term Trump divested of most of his businesses, so this is even a departure for him

Because you have a fetish for that very very hot Indian accent? (Indian accent)

The word “could” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence

... "For English, say 'God bless Trump' …”

Fixed that for you /s (... I really want off this apocalyptic ride)