An authorized service provider (ASP) is a person or
company that has been cleared to work on a product that is still under
warranty
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by another company without voiding the warranty. In order to become an ASP, they would have had to complete a
certification test administered by the company of the product that they would be servicing, i.e.
Hewlett-Packard,
Apple
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,
IBM,
Microsoft
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etc.
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