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Asurion, an insurance company for phones and other devices, has reportedly acquired uBreakiFix, the official phone repair company for Google Pixel devices and Samsung Galaxy phones. The immediate plans for the merger aren’t clear, but it’d be relatively simple for Asurion to push its customers over to uBreakiFix locations to get their insured devices immediately repaired. uBreakiFix operates more than 500 stores in the US, and Asurion offers its customers screen repairs along with complete phone replacements, depending on their plans. Asurion is the provider of the phone insurance plans sold by AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon in the US.
The purchase comes at a time when right-to-repair legislation is being considered, a law that would require…