America’s biggest phone Carriers preparing to hike prices!!!
Brian Sozzi · Executive Editor
Fri, April 25, 2025 at 5:25 AM MST 3 min read
Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile prepare to raise prices on consumers because of Trump’s trade war. Personal opinion its just Corp Greed.
Suggestion Boost and Mint Mobile Wireless are much less expensive..Phones are not computers
The smartphone ecosystem has avoided the biggest brunt of President Trump’s tariffs, for now.
But if that for now ends, major phone carriers appear poised to dump the higher costs of smartphones onto the laps of consumers.
Trump earlier this month exempted smartphones and some other electronics from his reciprocal tariffs, though he left a 20% fentanyl tariff on China intact. The exemption could prove temporary, keeping the prospect of 145% tariffs on China (where Apple (AAPL) makes its iPhones in play.
With regards to Apple.. a phone is a phone the toys that Apple provides are not loss leader products..Apple made a choice to move manufacturing to China based upon my opiion pure greed to line there pocket books…
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(https://finance.yahoo.com/news/verizon-att-and-t-mobile-prepare-to-raise-prices-on-consumers-because-of-trumps-trade-war-122549340.html)
