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Assurant's prepaid device protection business is a major growth vector, now encompassing multiple brands for Verizon (Visible, Total, Straight Talk), signaling a fragmented but rapidly expanding partnership that could be replicated with other carriers. — The strategy of winning prepaid brands is a wedge into the postpaid market, potentially disrupting the incumbents' (like Assurant's competitors) hold on the big carriers' core business.

Growth in mobile device protection subscribers (2 million added in 2025) and expansion into reverse logistics with T-Mobile point to a structural shift where carriers outsource more of the device lifecycle, including trade-in and repair, to specialized providers. — Carriers like T-Mobile are locking in multi-year reverse logistics agreements, reducing their internal operational footprint and improving cost efficiency on device trade-ins.