Trump may launch Trump-branded mobile phone and a wireless service that could compete with the likes of Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile.
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Sounds like a great way to surveil everyone.
If by "everyone" you mean the people stupid enough to buy a made-in-China Trump phone.
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I would bet A LOT of money that all of your messages would be viewable by him
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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.
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Why do Americans feel the need to name state run shit with their own name?
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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
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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.
Wasn't Starlink experimenting with phone calls? Could be a deal with Elon.
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At this point anyone who buys Trump-branded shit get what's coming to them. Dude is the most notorious grifter in history.
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“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?
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Competitors severely penalized in 3...2...
The great wireless firewall of America.
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We've had former presidents sell their family peanut farms to avoid conflicts of interest
The carters felt that relinquishing the business to someone else’s care would separate them from these affairs and avoid the possibility of their financial holdings resembling any conflict of interest while President Carter was in office.
But Carter had honor.
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At this point anyone who buys Trump-branded shit get what's coming to them. Dude is the most notorious grifter in history.
are you saying all my Trumpcoins, Trump NFTs, degrees from Trump university and deep frozen Trump steaks are worthless
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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.
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.
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Sounds like a great way to surveil everyone.
I've got bad news about your phone.
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Who could forget the op-ed Carter wrote for The Onion.
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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.
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First term Trump divested of most of his businesses, so this is even a departure for him
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Why did I read this in an Indian accent?
Because you have a fetish for that very very hot Indian accent? (Indian accent)
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The word “could” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence
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“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…”
... "For English, say 'God bless Trump' …”
Fixed that for you /s (... I really want off this apocalyptic ride)
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He's just dangling it out there so one of the competitors buys his "business". He doesn't actually want to make anything. It's another grift in disguise.
