Trump May Launch Wireless Phone Brand

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• Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It turns out that maybe having a gentlemen's agreement for how things should work was a bad idea.

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• thyristor@lemmy.pt ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I guess it’s OK as long as it’s not a peanut farm brand.

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• JHRD1880@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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• spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m sure it will ‘compete’ in the same way as all his other failed businesses.

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  • Mirshe@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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).

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    • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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• ToadOfHypnosis@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Unless you run the country through executive orders.

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