Trump Mobile
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Not on your life.
The Trump Organization announced Trump Mobile as its next venture on Monday, on the 10th anniversary of President Trump announcing his first bid for the White House.
Why it matters: The announcement marks yet another expansion for the organization — run by the president's sons, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. — which made millions in real estate and luxury golf courses, but has pivoted to other avenues, including crypto and digital media.
"One of the places where we felt there was lackluster performance was in the mobile industry," Donald Trump Jr. said from Trump Tower in New York City on Monday.
State of play: Phones will be both built and remanufactured in the U.S., and the phone plan — which will cost $47.45 a month, a nod to Trump serving as the 45th and 47th U.S. president — will include unlimited data, texting and calls with over 100 countries.
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/16/trump-organization-mobile-phones
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Seriously doubt it will happen.
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It's actually not that hard. It's based on a model called "mobile virtual network operator" - MVNO.
Meaning you strike a deal with a real mobile network operator (e.g. Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile) where you sell your own branded mobile communication service using their network. Essentially you own the customer relationships, you define your service plans, you bill the customers and you collect subscriptions moneys from your customers, but do not actually own or operate a mobile network. Your customers just use the real network owned/operated by someone else (in the USA, that's Verizon, AT&T, or T-Mobile). Depends on the deal you strike with these real mobile network operators, your may even leverage the roaming agreements they already established with overseas operators so your customers can get service while traveling overseas.
Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile, Google Fi, TracFone, Mint Mobile, Walmart Family Mobile, Spectrum Mobile, Cricket Wireless, etc. are all flavors of MVNOs.
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I don’t see American made phones happening very soon.
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It's actually not that hard. It's based on a model called "mobile virtual network operator" - MVNO.
Meaning you strike a deal with a real mobile network operator (e.g. Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile) where you sell your own branded mobile communication service using their network. Essentially you own the customer relationships, you define your service plans, you bill the customers and you collect subscriptions moneys from your customers, but do not actually own or operate a mobile network. Your customers just use the real network owned/operated by someone else (in the USA, that's Verizon, AT&T, or T-Mobile). Depends on the deal you strike with these real mobile network operators, your may even leverage the roaming agreements they already established with overseas operators so your customers can get service while traveling overseas.
Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile, Google Fi, TracFone, Mint Mobile, Walmart Family Mobile, Spectrum Mobile, Cricket Wireless, etc. are all flavors of MVNOs.
