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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Edit 1: The Orange Motherfucker Did it.
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Compete with but will lease their service because there is no actual competition with a barrier to entry like national cell towers.
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I'm sure it will 'compete' in the same way as all his other failed businesses.
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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.
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I guess it's OK as long as it's not a peanut farm brand.
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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).
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It turns out that maybe having a gentlemen's agreement for how things should work was a bad idea.
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Don’t forget the great Dish Wireless Network!
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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.
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more illegal shit
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With American-made phones and American call centres, right? Right?
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Sounds like a great way to surveil everyone.
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I wonder if he'll use Starlink...
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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.
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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"
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All parts will be manufactured and assembled in the US? Right?
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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…”
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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
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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.
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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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