Compete with but will lease their service because there is no actual competition with a barrier to entry like national cell towers.
Trump May Launch Wireless Phone Brand
Submitted 1 day ago by Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.gerbenlaw.com/blog/new-trademark-filings-suggest-trump-may-launch-wireless-phone-brand/
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ToadOfHypnosis@lemm.ee 1 day ago
jaybone@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
Unless you run the country through executive orders.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
It’s literally a political franchise.
Despite the stupidity of looks, to be honest - this looks from outside very US-American. Not like cowboy movies, not even like 30s, but like something written by Baum.
thyristor@lemmy.pt 1 day ago
I guess it’s OK as long as it’s not a peanut farm brand.
veeesix@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
With American-made phones and American call centres, right? Right?
HowAbt2day@futurology.today 1 day ago
“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…”
LedgeDrop@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
… "For English, say ‘God bless Trump’ …”
Fixed that for you /s (… I really want off this apocalyptic ride)
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 day ago
At this point anyone who buys Trump-branded shit get what’s coming to them. Dude is the most notorious grifter in history.
tourist@lemmy.world 1 day ago
are you saying all my Trumpcoins, Trump NFTs, degrees from Trump university and deep frozen Trump steaks are worthless
Flamekebab@piefed.social 1 day ago
It turns out that maybe having a gentlemen's agreement for how things should work was a bad idea.
NatakuNox@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Lol please let every Trump supporter buy his service. Suddenly, Trump ass kissers will have less reliable access to the internet and phone service?! Sounds like a good idea to me.
poopkins@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Register his own root Certificate Authority as well and this man is well on his way towards global surveillance.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
It’s going to be a cheap low-priority MVNO with deceptive wording to make it sound like its own network. Absolutely zero chance it’ll be competitive in any way.
mercano@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Won’t stop the red hats from buying it out of loyalty to the Emperor.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
True. Then it’ll get absorbed by one of the bigger MVNOs, or one of the main networks’ prepaid services, and become a cheap subsidiary or just get dissolved completely.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
Came to say this - either its going to use existing infrastructure owned by those companies, or it’s going to completely suck. In neither case that’s competition
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
Oh it’s 100% gonna be an MVNO, it’s expensive as fuck to roll out new infrastructure, and something like that certainly wouldn’t go unnoticed anyway.
It’s just gonna be the worst shit-tier kind of MVNO. Like Cricket back in the 2000s. Service = maybe.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
A president is allowed to found companies?
Either way, he sure has time on his hands.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 5 hours ago
It’s crazy how taxing that job must be.
skozzii@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
Thank God the swamp is gone.
JHRD1880@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They already tried that with the ‘Freedom phone’ and it was a massive scam, so this is quite on brand for him.
ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 17 hours ago
Damn he’s milking every penny. Did he just discover late stage capitalism?
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 5 hours ago
He already sold beans in the oval office, golden shoes and shitcoins. I think he’s way past discovering it.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m sure it will ‘compete’ in the same way as all his other failed businesses.
Mirshe@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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).
ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
rumba@piefed.zip 1 day ago
Competitors severely penalized in 3...2...
The great wireless firewall of America.
RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 1 day ago
more illegal shit
TheFriar@lemm.ee 1 day ago
The word “could” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence
InnerScientist@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
No matter your stance on Trump you must agree that it isn’t completely outside the realm of possibilities.
DokPsy@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
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
MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
o look, more illegal shit. great.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 22 hours ago
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.
mintiefresh@piefed.ca 1 day ago
All parts will be manufactured and assembled in the US? Right?
Fuzzypyro@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
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 youtu.be/O8FJSjy3bXA
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
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.
rayyy@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Get cha them Chyna phones MAGA folks.
Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
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”
drhodl@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Nah. He’ll just have the sticker that says “American made” made in America.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 5 hours ago
And by american made it means designed by a guy in america usin A.I, droppshipping it from china.
Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
Worse he’s promising that they’ll eventually be made in America. Just like he promised a new health care plan
bookmeat@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
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.
drhodl@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
This is just todays stupid idea, just to take peoples attention away from yesterdays shitty “perade”(sic).
atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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 bathes of data and minutes from the big three, or have pretty bad service). And who’s going to o buy it? His supporters? I doubt that. This is just another grift.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I would bet A LOT of money that all of your messages would be viewable by him
frunch@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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
Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 18 hours ago
The only reason it will compete with those brands is cause if some kind of agreement.
themakara@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Compete with them will using their networks, sure.