An authorized service provider (ASP) is a person or
company
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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
The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard ( ) or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. HP developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components ...
,
Apple
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,
IBM,
Microsoft
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etc.
Business terms
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