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===Unavailability of service (2025)===

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 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/06/17/trump-mobile-phone-signup-wireless-service/ |title=I tried signing up for Trump Mobile service. Here’s how it went. |first=Shira |last=Ovide |work=The Washington Post |date=2025-06-17 |access-date=26 June 2025 |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 |url-status=live}}</ref> <!-~~- Rather weird wording~~. ~~- Sojourna -->~~

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 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/06/17/trump-mobile-phone-signup-wireless-service/ |title=I tried signing up for Trump Mobile service. Here’s how it went. |first=Shira |last=Ovide |work=The Washington Post |date=2025-06-17 |access-date=26 June 2025 |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 |url-status=live}}</ref> Contributing factors to the lack of functionality included the long wait-time for an activation QR code via email, alongside "coming soon" text being displayed on the number activation screen.

===False advertising (2025)===

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 ===Unavailability of service (2025)===
-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 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/06/17/trump-mobile-phone-signup-wireless-service/ |title=I tried signing up for Trump Mobile service. Here’s how it went. |first=Shira |last=Ovide |work=The Washington Post |date=2025-06-17 |access-date=26 June 2025 |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 |url-status=live}}</ref> <!-- Rather weird wording. - Sojourna -->
+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 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/06/17/trump-mobile-phone-signup-wireless-service/ |title=I tried signing up for Trump Mobile service. Here’s how it went. |first=Shira |last=Ovide |work=The Washington Post |date=2025-06-17 |access-date=26 June 2025 |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 |url-status=live}}</ref> Contributing factors to the lack of functionality included the long wait-time for an activation QR code via email, alongside "coming soon" text being displayed on the number activation screen.
 ===False advertising (2025)===