The Trump organization now has a wireless business, including a Mobile telephone plan and a $ 499 of gold-hued telephone called T1.
On Monday, Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, announced a new Wireless adventure focused on a service called Trump Mobile. According to The Venture’s website, at Wireless plan It is available for $ 47.45 per month with unlimited conversations, text and data and without long -term contract. The price of the service is a call for the two Donald Trump’s terms as president: 47 for his current presidency and 45 for his previous one, from 2017 to 2021. These interested parties can use their own telephone and number.
The Trump family graduated their name in the service. Your phone is only available to Android users.
Trump Mobile offers this $ 499 phone, called T1for the previous order before the availability provided in September. Includes a 6.8-inch AMOLED screen and works with the Android 15 operating system. The company says that the service will run through the networks of the three main wireless operators in the United States: AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon.
The idea of a wireless service promoted around a celebrity or brand can be an emerging trend. Only one week before the Trump organization’s announcement, the popular Smartless Podcast launched his own service. The podcast is welcomed by the actors Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes.
Will the phone be made in the United States or elsewhere?
In a statement Regarding the new service and telephone, the Trump organization says it will offer customer service through US -based call centers. The T1 phone is described as “designed and built in the United States.”
The statement does not offer any additional details about the telephone manufacturing supply, but considering the realities of the supply chain, it is likely that at least some of the telephone components came from another country, such as China. Trump administration has focused on having more manufacture in the United States, including Pushing Apple to build iphones here.
Comment: Trump Mobile and the T1 phone make no sense, even for Trump fans
Francisco Jeronimo, Vice President of International Data Corp., told CNBC Tuesday That the phone could not be mounted or made completely in the United States. “This is completely impossible,” he said.
Eric Trump, the president’s young son, said on Tuesday that the company would build phones in the United States, but not immediately.
“Finally, all phones can be built in the United States of America,” he said in an interview quoted by Wired Magazine.
Trump Mobile will offer service through AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile.
President Trump has said that he will impose a 25% rate to all non -manufactured smartphones in the United Stateswhich seems to include the telephone proposed by his own family.
In addition to the Voice and Data Service, the Mobile Trump plan includes attendance on the road 24 hours of the day through Drive America, Telehealth and Mental Health Health Services, without credit control and free international calls in 100 countries, including many with North -American military bases to help honors families who bravely serve our military abroad. ”
Some details are confused
Cnet Senior Editor Mike Sorrentino pointed that the Place for the Trump phone It was live with numerous mistakes and omissions.
It does not list a processor, even under the marked headline “processor”. The storage and memory specifications are mixed, listing RAM as 12 GB of storage and memory as 256GB of internal storage. The place mentions a “punch hole amoled screen”, which does not exist Sorrentino, using the term to refer to the space of the front camera. Two separate sizes are given for the phone screen. The site refers to a “5,000MAH long lifestyle”, but it seems to mean the battery. Battery camera confusion has been corrected.
A statement on the phone says it will be published In August, But the website says September.
Gulf of Mexico on the map
Trump’s mobile site was launched with a map showing his coverage area, but this map was removed after online people realized that the map used the name of the Gulf of Mexico for the Trump water body calls the Gulf of America.
A Reuters review of the website code shows that Trump Mobile seems to have used T-Mobile network data for their coverage map. The telecommunications operator’s coverage map labels the water body as Gulf of Mexico.
Trump’s mobile phone plan is priced at $ 47.45 a month, because Donald Trump was 45 and 47th president.
Trump announced the Change of Gulf of America The day of its inauguration in January. He also renamed Alaska Mountain to Mount McKinley. Associated Press has said that he will not use the name of the Gulf of America for the water body.
A phone with a telehealth plan?
The press release promises that the telephone plan includes “Telehealth services, including virtual medical care, mental health support and easy order and delivery for prescription drugs”.
Don Hendrickson, a spokesman for Trump Mobile, confirmed to the launch, saying that Telehealth’s services were included in the plan. As The New York Times NotesIt is not clear how a $ 47 telephone plan can afford to cover visits and medicines for remote doctors.
Trump’s mobile site says the Telehealth Program Will require users to register with a third -party supplier, Doctor.
Late to the celebrity telephone telephone trend
Trump Mobile’s new offers may receive a lot of advertising due to the high profile and the presence of the President’s social networks, but a wireless executive said that they are unlikely to create a significant interruption for other wireless operators.
“The United States wireless market exceeds $ 300 million a year and is not a zero sum game. New participants such as Trump Mobile or Smartless operate as mobile virtual network operators who use infrastructure of the three major.” We are moving CEO AHMED KHATTAK. Khattak’s company has served one million wireless customers and has been ranked to the maximum Among the CNET wireless telephone plans have ranked.
“They could cut a niche based on brand loyalty or audience, but this does not mainly change the economy or the advantages of the largest MVnos or the three major carriers,” he says.
Khattak does not believe that Trump’s new effort is a conflict of interest or has a regulatory conflict because the President has the authority to designate FCC commissioners.
“FCC is an independent agency,” he says. “The commissioners are appointed by the President, but confirmed by the Senate and the FCC is not involved in business agreements or commercial launches of MVNO.”
The United States CEO for mobile does not believe that the new company represents a new wave of wireless celebrities.
“If there is something, this time is behind,” he says. “Mint Mobile is often considered as a story of Ryan Reynolds, but the reality is that his parent company, Ultra Mobile, was already the fastest growing private company in America much before it joined.”
Khattak added: “Most celebrity MVNO do not last because Wireless is an operatively intense business with narrow margins. This is not the next tendency of tequila or celebrity podcast.”
From Trump’s phones to the jars, snowballs
The President did not appear for Monday announcement at New York Trump; His children directed the advertising for the presentation.
The Trump organization is a holding for the president’s business interests. According to Reuters, the President has reported $ 600 million from various offers and projects, including Crypt Coins, a business sector in his administration She has been a bull.
Recently, the Semapor news site reported This instant kitchen company will offer a “45/47 collaboration”, marking articles with these numbers and the “Make America Great Again” consider of the President. Semfor also reported that the Tware and China Lenox company has proposed a Trump -related product line, including snowballs and crockery with the president’s face.
