Fact Sheet
Asurion:
- Largest provider of wireless handset insurance programs in North America
- Privately owned by management and investors
- Recognized as Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and as the Association
for Corporate Growth's Emerging Growth Company of the Year
Employees:
- Over 5,000 employees company-wide
Customers/Partners:
- Some of Asurion’s clients include: Alltel, AT&T, Cricket, Disney
Mobile,
NTT DoCoMo, Korea Telecom Freetel, Metro PCS, Rogers Wireless,
Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless
Services:
- Handset and Device Protection programs provide handset insurance and
warranty management to protect customers against loss, theft, damage and
malfunction of their wireless devices
- Data Protection offers cutting edge mobile applications that can automatically
protect
the valuable information stored in mobile devices and provide access to
important
data on the go.
- Customized Solutions designed to meet new industry challenges
Locations:
- North America: Dallas, Nashville, Evans, Houston, Salina, San Mateo,
Kansas City, Smyrna and Moncton,Canada.
- Asia Pacific: China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Singapore
Results:
- Save more than half a billion dollars for customers annually
- Repair hundreds of thousands of wireless devices annually
- Serve over 60 million wireless subscribers
Corporate Timeline:
- 1994: Founded in Silicon Valley
- 1995: Acquired Road Rescue
- 1999: Acquired Merrimac Group
- 2001: Changed name to Asurion
- 2002: Created wireless technology repair and reverse logistics center
- 2003: Expanded into Asia
- 2006: Asurion and lock\line merge
- 2006: Acquired Warranty Corporation of America and Lumitrend