Trump Mobile: Difference between revisions

When the service was announced, journalists and YouTubers bought into the service to test its functionality as an MVNO. When journalist Shira Ovide signed up for the "47 Plan" (being the only available service package on the website), she noted it was "impossible" to enable the service on her phone, with her credit card being instantly charged.<ref name="WP">{{Cite web |last=Ovide |first=Shira |title=I tried signing up for Trump Mobile service. Here’s how it went. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/06/17/trump-mobile-phone-signup-wireless-service/ |website=The Washington Post |date=17 Jun 2025 |access-date=26 June 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250617201221/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/06/17/trump-mobile-phone-signup-wireless-service/ |archive-date=17 June 2025}}</ref> Contributing factors to the lack of functionality included the long wait-time for an activation QR code via e-mail, alongside "coming soon" text being displayed on the number activation screen.

Shira Ovide noted in her review that the 47 plan has a "plan telecom tax" of $17.25 a month in addition to the $47.45 in the plan.<ref name="WP" /> When on customer support, YouTuber Stetson Doggett was told Trump Mobile had "no underlying network" and "its own plan", meaning the service did not use networks from [[Verizon]], [[T-Mobile]], or [[AT&T]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Doggett |first=Stetson |title=I Signed Up for Trump Mobile So You Don't Have To |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUtSo7dASg0 |website=[[YouTube]] |date=24 Jun 2025 |access-date=19 Apr 2026 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://preservetube.com/watch?v=KUtSo7dASg0 |archive-date=23 Feb 2026}}</ref> This would be proven false later in the video when under Trump Mobile the service utilized T-Mobile cellular data with an {{Wplink|eSim}}.