Mobile Phone Insurance and Extended Warranties in the Americas 2020

Mobile Phone Insurance and Extended Warranties in the Americas is a report about the market for insurance and extended warranties sold in conjunction with cellphones in eight countries namely Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and the US.

Cellphones are defined as any mobile handsets that incorporate a conventional mobile telephony facility including smartphones. Mobile phone insurance and extended warranties can cover one or more of accidental damage, loss, technical breakdown and theft, as well as fraudulent calls, fraudulent use of an e-wallet and viral attacks.

The report draws on extensive primary and secondary research covering over 500 organisations involved in the production and distribution of mobile phones including manufacturers, cellphone network operators, specialised retailers of consumer electronics, supermarkets and other types of retailer (e.g. department store / variety retailers), plus more than 60 independent providers of mobile phone insurance and extended warranties.

The PartnerBASE™ dataset that accompanies the report logs more than 230 schemes for mobile phone insurance and extended warranties offered by manufacturers, retailers and independent providers.

You may be able to use this report plus the PartnerBASE™ dataset and market data annexe that accompany it in one or more of the following ways:

• appreciate the size of the opportunity in the market for mobile phone insurance and extended warranties in the Americas;
•  understand which competitors have established themselves with key distributors such as cellphone network operators or leading manufacturers;
•  assess the position of national and international competitors such as AIG, Amynta Group, Assurant, Asurion, BNP Paribas Cardif, New Leaf Service, Old Republic, Safeware, Sears, Softbank, SquareTrade and Zurich;
•  consider how the value of the market for mobile phone insurance and extended warranties in the Americas may reasonably be expected to evolve up to 2023.