Few Cell Phone Repair Businesses Offer Franchising Opportunities

It's estimated that over half the people in the world own cell phones, and yet franchising opportunities are relatively rare.

Thirty years ago, a cell phone was something out of Jules Verne.
Portable telephones were the newest thing. It was considered amazing
when you could carry the entire phone with you to a different room, but
if you dared bring it out of doors, weaker signals had a tendency to
break up in the manner of transistor radios, another popular hand-held
device that truly was portable.

By 1985, transistor radios were virtually obsolete. In the 1960s and
early 1970s, these Marconi-spawned gadgets were ubiquitous as the
children, often male baseball addicts, who carried them around
everywhere except perhaps in the shower, which might have been shocking
to some.

These days, cell phones along with their electronic contemporaries
and offspring – IPods and IPhone, Blackberries and Xboxes, Playstation
incarnations and the versatile Wii, along with their laptop
computerized cousins -- although many of these devices possess LCD
screens which resemble miniature desktop flat screen computer monitors
– have become as ubiquitous as transistor radios once were, perhaps
much more so. The irony is that on many of these devices, including
cell phones, a user can not only watch an entire baseball game of their
choice live, but bring up a variety of multimedia visual treats as they
do so – baseball stats of their favorite players or teams, historical
footage and documentaries, you name it, and baseball is only the tip of
the interactive Wii. As for the ubiquitous cell phone, in some cases
people too impoverished to own a pair of shoes own a cheap cell phone,
and yet the logical entrepreneurial step of franchising cell phone
repair businesses is not ubiquitous. But one gets the impression it
will be soon. One company with more than 20 locations around the U.S.
has already established a presence, initiated when they were merely a
cell phone repair business. Their name, like a catchy tagline, implies
an urgency that appears synonymous with cardio-pulmonary resuscitation,
which is precisely what they do with your ailing cell phone, or any of
the other electronic wizardries previously mentioned. Their franchises
can be had for a modest investment of under $100,000. A German cell
phone repair company and one in Australia appear to be following suit
along similar lines. A smaller American company also offers cell phone
repair franchises at less than $50,000, but sans an established
presence in the industry, perhaps you get what you pay for. Still, in
an industry with massive demand largely due to manufacturers shirking
any maintenance responsibilities to those minions of communications
gadgetry that they've spawned, cell phone repair
franchising opportunities aren't yet ubiquitous, and that is
surprising, akin to a transistor radio cradled to a boy's ear in the
shower a generation or more ago, perhaps even shocking.

Jeff Gasner is with CPR-Cell Phone repair. The leader in Cell Phone
Repair and iPod repair offering cell phone repair services nationwide.
To learn more about Cell phone repair, ipod repair, cell repair services, visit Chicagocellrepair.com.