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Tristan Thompson<\/a> protects the net on the basketball court, but his new side hustle is all about delivering it to unconnected people worldwide!<\/p>\n TMZ Sports<\/a> has learned 34-year-old Thompson secured the C-suite gig with telecommunications company World Mobile … where the NBA champ will serve as Chief Digital Equity Officer.<\/p>\n The NBA champ isn’t cashing a check to serve as a spokesperson. We’re told Tristan believes in WM’s mission — connecting people across the globe, many in underserved communities — with an internet connection.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Depending on where you live, the internet is a luxury. Roughly a third of Earth’s population cannot connect … in part ’cause in many cases it isn’t profitable for providers to do biz in rural or developing areas.<\/p>\n World Mobile, we’re told, is looking to shake up how customers get these services.<\/p>\n Rather than relying on expensive infrastructure, WM uses a peer-to-peer network, allowing regular everyday people to host AirNodes, building an expansive network.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n As part of his role with the company, we’re told Thompson is introducing the “Community Connectivity Fund,” a multi-million dollar initiative designed to beef up infrastructure and create pilot programs across the map.<\/p>\n The new job may make Tristan the busiest man in professional sports.<\/p>\n Aside from prepping to play his 14th NBA season (he’s currently a free agent) and landing with World Mobile, Thompson’s also doing biz up with two Artificial Intelligence companies, including TracyAI, a partnership we wrote about<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tristan Thompson Supplying Internet Around The World … Secures New Gig! Published August 11, 2025 12:30 AM PDT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[64,63,237,44,85,635,105,26898],"class_list":["post-59522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-internet","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-internet","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-tmz-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Tristan](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/6f436931a1264a62a7ff69ae641b2dda_md.jpg\")
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