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Hours after the high-profile launch of Trump Mobile, a new Trump-branded mobile service provider, in June, callers to the company's customer support line were greeted with, "Omega Auto Care, how can I help you?"

Two calls placed by Reuters that day to the mobile service's helpline rang to the Missouri-based auto-warranty company, which is part of Ensurety Ventures, a St. Louis, Missouri firm led by entrepreneur Pat O'Brien, who was introduced by Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. on June 16 as a member of the launch team providing "customer support and device protection" for Trump Mobile.

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[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 days ago

The family created the MVNO off the name, Mango still gets a cut, it's built off the back of another already terrible MVNO on T-Mobile. The same T-Mobile that was allowed to accelerate 5G growth way ahead of Verizon and AT&T under Mango 1.0 when the oh so loved John Legere cut deals to get the Sprint merger accelerated and a fat bucket of n41 spectrum allocated. I'm sure their Chinese-ODM'd "made in the USA, oops, not" grift phone, if it ever sees the light of day, will be full of terrible infected software as well.

It is like a big recursive grift.

I don't get in what universe people would choose their primary telecommunications connection based on association with a person. Verizon, AT&T, and Dish are also terrible in their own rights, and the number of MVNOs in the US is staggeringly hilarious, but... it's meant to be a phone/message/Internet connection. One's cell phone isn't in the Indy 500.

The days of Catherine Zeta Jones hocking GSM/GPRS/EDGE are way over.