Source: The Brownsville Herald, TexasSept.迷你倉新蒲崗 06--BROWNSVILLE -- GC Telecom, a cellphone repair company that launched operations in Brownsville three years ago, is taking its show on the road.The company got its start at the ITECCenter business incubator and now has invested in a mobile repair lab for the purpose of bringing its services to the customer.Besides cellphone repair, GC also works on laptops, PlayStations, XBox, and is a Bose-certified repair center as well. The company has a statewide contract with Sam's Club to fix Bose SoundDock digital music systems, said Benjamin Luna, the company's head of sales and business development."But our main bread and butter is cellphone repair," he said.The mobile rig, a former pipefitting truck from California, has been tested at one location so far: Sunrise Mall, where GC also has a kiosk. Luna also hopes to take the mobile lab to the Rio GrandeValley outlet mall in Mercedes."The biggest thing is to set it up where people can see it," he said.The lab doubles as a billboard on wheels. If the concept is successful in the Valley, GC plans to put trucks in major metro areas like Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio, Luna said.To date, the company has depended on drop-off customers at its Sunrise Mall kiosk and at the company's North Expressway headquarters."It's been working great," Luna said. "Business is good. We're happy where we stand. Of course, there's more to do."GC's target clientele is largely comprising cellphone customers who can't afford or don't want the insurance sold by phone manufacturers. It's a quickly growing segment of the wireless-subscriber community, Luna said."This market is booming up in Austin, San Antonio, Houston," he said. "A lot of peopl迷你倉出租 are now starting to do third-party repair instead of going through insurance."As long as GC has the part on hand -- cracked screens are a common issue -- turnaround time is only an hour, he said.The company opened a second location, in McAllen, several months ago and is set to launch an online business selling replacement parts.Research is another aspect of GC's operation, necessary for repairing the newest products on the market, such as fifth-generation iPhones and iPods.GC started in Monterrey, N.L., in the mid-1990s and today has a large Latin American footprint, with hundreds of technicians at repair centers scattered around Mexico, Central and South America.Luna said GC in the Valley has a close relationship with its Monterrey-based sister company, and that his technicians go to that city for training.GC contracts with major wireless providers such as Telcel and Movistar south of the border, and Luna hopes to do the same thing here with Sprint, Verizon or another top U.S. provider.GC's southern contracts didn't happen overnight, of course, but took time to cultivate."It's going to be maybe be about the same thing here," Luna said. "It's going to take a little bit more time."He's thinking one, maybe two years."There's a lot of red tape we have to go through, and of course we want to do it correctly as well," Luna said. "We're going in the right direction."sclark@brownsvilleherald.comGET IN TOUCHGC Telecom Brownsville625 N. Expressway(956) 574-0850GC Telecom McAllen920 W. Houston Ave.(956) 618-2545.gctelecomusa.orgCopyright: ___ (c)2013 The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Texas) Visit The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Texas) at .brownsvilleherald.com Distributed by MCT Information Services迷你倉
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