Few Cell Phone Repair Businesses Offer Franchising Opportunities

Thirty years ago, a cell phone was something outAs for the ubiquitous cell phone, in some cases
of Jules Verne. Portable telephones were thepeople too impoverished to own a pair of shoes
newest thing. It was considered amazing whenown a cheap cell phone, and yet the logical
you could carry the entire phone with you to aentrepreneurial step of franchising cell phone repair
different room, but if you dared bring it out ofbusinesses is not ubiquitous. But one gets the
doors, weaker signals had a tendency to break upimpression it will be soon.
in the manner of transistor radios, another popularOne company with more than 20 locations around
hand-held device that truly was portable.the U.S. has already established a presence,
By 1985, transistor radios were virtually obsolete.initiated when they were merely a cell phone
In the 1960s and early 1970s, theserepair business. Their name, like a catchy tagline,
Marconi-spawned gadgets were ubiquitous as theimplies an urgency that appears synonymous with
children, often male baseball addicts, who carriedcardio-pulmonary resuscitation, which is precisely
them around everywhere except perhaps in thewhat they do with your ailing cell phone, or any of
shower, which might have been shocking tothe other electronic wizardries previously
some.mentioned. Their franchises can be had for a
These days, cell phones along with their electronicmodest investment of under $100,000. A German
contemporaries and offspring - IPods and IPhone,cell phone repair company and one in Australia
Blackberries and Xboxes, Playstation incarnationsappear to be following suit along similar lines. A
and the versatile Wii, along with their laptopsmaller American company also offers cell phone
computerized cousins (although many of theserepair franchises at less than $50,000, but sans an
devices possess LCD screens which resembleestablished presence in the industry, perhaps you
miniature desktop flat screen computer monitors)get what you pay for. Still, in an industry with
- have become as ubiquitous as transistor radiosmassive demand largely due to manufacturers
once were, perhaps much more so. The irony isshirking any maintenance responsibilities to those
that on many of these devices including cellminions of communications gadgetry that they've
phones, a user can not only watch an entirespawned, cell phone repair franchising opportunities
baseball game of their choice live, but bring up aaren't yet ubiquitous, and that is surprising, akin to
variety of multimedia visual treats as they do so -a transistor radio cradled to a boy's ear in the
baseball stats of their favorite players or teams,shower a generation or more ago, perhaps even
historical footage and documentaries, you name it,shocking.
and baseball is only the tip of the interactive Wii.