A BIG HUGE WIRELESS INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION WANTS TO RESTRICT YOUR RIGHT TO REPAIR - How The CTIA WISE ASP Could Destroy Your Business!
For many years the Tech Repair Industry ( aka, Cell Phone Repair ) has struggled with trying to find a way to police itself and discourage rogue players. Now a few BIG COMPANIES in the repair industry have partnered with CTIA ( who represents the $475 billion wireless Empire ) to create WISE Certification. WISE stands for W ireless I ndustry S ervice E xcellence, which I don't really get as it applies to tech repair?! Maybe add an 'r' for repair and make it WISER? OK, OK, much of the current Tech Repair Industry ( TRI ) is fixing cell phones -- more specifically replacing a glass screen on a phone that gets cracked -- which many of the CTIA Board members make, insure and run on their networks. So when I think Wireless Industry I think of; AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, Sprint, Apple, Samsung, Asurion, American Tower Corporation, Intel, Qualcomm and the positions THEY support; Competition, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Net Neutrality, Privacy, Public Safety, S