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The evolution of the telephone repairman
Imagine the royal tantrum thrown by the young iPhone user in the summer of 2007 after inadvertently smashing the casing a week into a two-year contract.
Imagine the hissy fit on learning he could have had it repaired for $25, rather than spending more than $400 on a new phone.
If a good option in a booming economy like the summer of ’07, it is even better heading into the summer of 2009 as luxuries like smart phones become subject to line-item vetoes in household budgets.
Long before Apple Inc.’s alchemists brewed up the iPhone, Barbara Diaz and her husband Orlando conjured up the Wireless Wizard, a Bridgeport repair shop established in 1996 as the Pager Wizard to repair pagers; later adding mobile telephone repairs as it evolved with the times.
After starting up the business with $6,000 – the money needed to purchase tools for repairing pagers – the company has since invested in its appearance, recreating its storefront in the likeness of a medieval castle.
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