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Florida man expands crypto empire with new wireless service and phone

The Register · Brandon Vigliarolo · last updated

The Trump family is getting into the wireless business — and what better way to do it than with a gold-colored Android smartphone that could someday be designed and manufactured in the USA?

The Trump Organization today pulled the velvet curtain off of Trump Mobile, a self-described “transformational new cellular service” that reflects the values of “hard-working Americans … and delivers reliable quality they can count on.” 

All believable if “transformational” means yet another discount mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) piggybacking off of someone else’s infrastructure; if “reliable quality” means customers will likely see their “unlimited data” plans deprioritized by AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile; and if hard-working Americans value gold-colored smartphones with ambiguous specs. 

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