Trump Organization enters mobile phone business

Donald Trump family launches a new Trump phone service, in its last plan to cash the name of the US president.

Trump Organization, which leads his sons, said She planned to sell a golden color, “built in the United States for $ 499 (£ 367.50), with a mobile telephony service in the amount of $ 47.45 – reference to their father who serves as 47. and 45. President of the country.

Ethical guards said that the latest endeavor was another means of potential corruption and conflict of interest.

The supply chain expert also told the BBC that such a telephone in the United States would be “practically impossible”.

“It is amazing that Trump family created another way that President Trump personally benefits while in operation” said Meghan Faulkner, a communication director for citizens for responsibility and ethics in Washington (crew).

Trump said that he put his business interests in confidence, which was managed by his children. The White House was retained, he acts on the interests of all Americans.

But Mrs. Faulkner said that the latest undertaking is a reliable issues, including the new job to win customers from people who will influence Trump and how the President will improve the policy and regulation of industry in which his family has a share now.

Technological experts asked what “built in the United States” built into the United States “, implies and claims that it is probably unable to produce smartphones from zero in the US.

“They even don’t have a work prototype. It’s extremely unlikely,” Professor Tinglong Dai said, who teaches management of operations at Johns Hopkins business school.

“You would have to have a miracle. You must have a volume economy. You should have a sustainable demand for this type of product,” Prof Dai added.

The decision comes as Trump trying to press the Apple Cheice Ekecutive cooking team in the production of iPhones that are sold to US customers in the US.

Last month, president threatened Setting 25% Import Tax “at least” on iPhone not manufactured in America.

Analyst Leo Gebbie CCS Insight noticed that the United States is currently “simply lacking high-tech supply” for Smartphope composition, especially not in time to publish in August, because the trump organization said.

“However, it is possible that the device can be compiled in the USA with parts that are imported from abroad. It could be the most likely resulting, T1 allows American sovereignty,” Gebbie.

The announcement was a lighted detail, including the name of the business partner who will run the service and licensing of the name.

The Trump Organization did not immediately answer the BBC issues about his business partner, criticisms about the issue of potential ethics and a request for details on its “built in the United States”.

In announcing its plans, it is said that “diligent Americans deserve wireless service that is affordable, reflects their values ​​and delivers reliable quality to which I can count.”

It has set the policy of “reduced” international calls to families with members who serve outside the United States.

The announcement announced that the mobile service will have customer support staff in accordance with the United States to answer questions, as well as a gold phone, which is currently available for pre-order.

The agreement is the expansion of the business strategy that Trump was long before its Presidency, striking contracts to sell its name into categories and golf operators in exchange for fees and tantia fees.

But the possibilities for profit from his brand has expanded since he entered politics a decade.

At his last financial discovery, Trump reported more than 600 million dollars last year, including millions from objects such as Bible branded Trump, observe sneakers and odors.

Forbes assessed that his net value was $ 5.1 billion, more than twice as much as a year earlier.

They said that the President “Diehard Next”, which was responsible for helping the values ​​of the Trump Social Media Media Media, which conducted the truth of Social Platform, which worked on rough half wealth last year.

The Mobile Phone Mobile Market currently dominates three main players: AT & T, Verizon and T-Mobile, which all offer a telephone service starting from less than $ 40 a month.

There are also an increasing number of smaller companies that pay the use of these networks to target nihe groups of potential customers, offering lower prices or custom plans.

The largest of these companies, known as mobile providers, have less than 10 million subscribers, in accordance with the report from 1924. by the Commission for Federal Communications.

Mint Mobile, who supported Ryan Reinolds, was sold T-Mobile for 1.35 billion dollars in 2023. years. At that time, an analyst assessed that the service had approximately two million to three million subscribers.

The actor had a 25% share in business, giving him a potential payment of about $ 300 million.