Franchises · 2026 FDD · Wisconsin DFI filing 640656
Wireless Zone franchise cost, unit revenue and closures
Opening a Wireless Zone cost $441,875 to $1,328,210 in the 2026 FDD; the franchisor's revenue disclosure has no single unit figure; 10.5% of franchised units closed over three years.
Franchisor: Wireless Zone LLC. FDD issued 2026-03-31. Fiscal year end 2025-12-31. Figures re-found on the cited page 2026-11-03.
What a unit costs to open
single Store.
What a unit pays the franchisor
| Initial franchise fee | $25,000 | Item 5, p. 7 |
|---|---|---|
| Royalty | Royalties of not more than 22% of the Gross Profit earned through sales at the Store, stepping down to 9% at higher Gross Profit, deducted from carrier commissions and residuals | Item 6, p. 9 |
| Advertising fund | no advertising fund contribution is listed in Item 6 | Item 6, p. 9 |
standard fee; $1,000 for an existing franchisee adding a store; fees actually charged in 2025 ranged from $0 to $1,000.
A share of gross profit, not a percentage of sales, so it is not comparable with a royalty.
What a unit sells
Item 19 is optional and is the franchisor's own representation. It is shown here as filed, with the franchisor's measure, sample and period, and nothing is estimated where it is missing.
Item 19 present, no single unit figure. Section A: 2025 average Gross Revenue, Gross Profit, gross margin and net activations for the 727 franchised Stores open all year, split into five quintiles ranked by Gross Profit (about 145 Stores each), with no all-store revenue row; the quintile table's figures did not extract cleanly from the filed PDF (Item 19, p. 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50).
Sample: 727 franchised Stores open and operating all of 2025; an activity table gives average postpay activations (57 a month, median 48) and upgrades (85, median 74) per Store, and Section B repeats the quintiles by quarter. Period: 2025 calendar year.
The figures in these tables are embedded as images in the filed PDF and have not yet been transcribed; they will be read by hand before this page shows them.
Revenue to investment
Undefined: the Item 19 quintile table has no all-store figure and did not extract.
How many units open and close
| Franchised units | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start of year | 446 | 720 | 745 |
| Opened | 283 | 42 | 68 |
| Terminated | 9 | 17 | 21 |
| Not renewed | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Reacquired by franchisor | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ceased, other reasons | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| End of year | 720 | 745 | 792 |
| Company-owned, end of year | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Item 20, Table 1 p. 53; Table 3 totals p. 59.
Closures are the franchisor's Item 20 counts of units terminated, not renewed, or ceased for other reasons, summed over 2023–2025 and divided by franchised units at the start of 2023. Units the franchisor reacquired are not closures. This is an Item 20 count, not a failure rate.
Table 3 prints the 2023 start as 446, one less than Table 1.
all three rows sum; the 2023 start (446) is one less than the 447 in Table 1.
Source and method
Every figure above comes from the Wireless Zone Franchise Disclosure Document issued 2026-03-31, as filed with the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions (filing 640656, registry record). The PDF is the franchisor's and is not hosted here; the item and page beside each figure is where to check it. Item 7 and Item 20 tables were read cell by cell; Item 19 was read by hand; each Item 20 year was checked to sum (start + opened − exits = end) before it was recorded.
A Verizon retailer. The royalty is a share of Gross Profit (commissions and residuals from the carrier), not a percentage of sales, and the franchised count jumped from 447 to 720 in 2023 as 283 stores were added in one year..
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