“AT&T’s wireless network performs better than systems maintained by other top carriers including Verizon Wireless in many markets, according to new data from start-up RootMetrics, a mobile network performance service,” Olga Kharif reports for Bloomberg.
“The carrier’s network outperforms those of Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA in 14 of 23 markets, according to the data, due to be released on Nov. 11,” Kharif reports. “In markets such as Washington, D.C., Seattle and Philadelphia, AT&T earned a higher RootScore, based on the company’s proprietary algorithm that weighs the carrier’s voice and data quality. AT&T is also one of two best performers in six additional markets.”
Kharif reports, “The RootMetrics data underscored the difficulty AT&T has encountered in other markets, including San Francisco. There, AT&T’s gear didn’t perform as well as Sprint’s and Verizon’s. AT&T’s RootScore in the market is on par with T-Mobile’s.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
queue the Verizon fans screaming this aint so
That would include me. I’m certainly not in a major market, hence the need for Verizon. Cell towers are fee and far between in the mountains…
Few not fee, self grammar policing…
Not grammar policing.. just a typing glitch.
Yeah..
I live in an area where verizon loses signal IN town… One block downtown you have full signal, turn a corner and it’s a blackout area.
AT&T smokes Verizon here.
And I will say that there are areas that Verizon has better service than AT&T… It’s all in where you live, and what restrictions the local/state/etc governments/environmentalist/etc place on carriers (if they can put up a new tower or not)
14 out of 23 markets? Something tells me that there are a lot more than 23 markets out there.
How did AT&T do in the Dakotas?
I lived in the Dakotas once for a short time. I’d hardly call it a “market”. Two years after the iPhone had been introduced, I couldn’t find a single person who even knew what one was. And that was in one of the largest “cities” there.
I have a relative who lives in CT directly on Long Island Sound and 8 miles away from the shortest distance from Long Island there. He is a AT&T iPhone user. Signal is little to none. In other parts of the area there is also poor service in addition to people fighting the construction of more towers. He used to be on VZ before the iPhone was added. Never a problem. He is returning to VZ because his IPhone neighbors have no problem with service. As for myself in FL I have seen my AT&T service improve dramatically in the last 6 months with no problem.
AT&T Mobility’s network outperforms Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile in 14 U.S. markets
Just not the markets you and I live in.
It all depends on where you live. Hopefully LTE will solve some of this, but that’s a ways off.
I have AT&T in Phoenix, and service and signal is great. I noticed a marked improvement in voice and data quality a couple of years ago, too. That said, there are a few of the outer lying areas where only one carrier gets good signals – VZ, Sprint, or AT&T.
My wife worked in a building where Alltel was the only service she could get, so she bought a laptop card for her MBP. Then VZ bought out Alltel, and she lost service there. The VZ card they gave her as a replacement couldn’t get a signal either.
So all the fighting over which company is best is just pointless. If Apple would hurry up and get the iPhone on all carriers, then we could just pick our favorite carrier and be done with it.
After all, I don’t care who provides the service to my iPhone, just so long as I get the service need.
I bought the Verizon iPad 2 when it came out instead of the AT&T version. I figured *Everyone* says AT&T sucks and Verizon is so much better. Plus, it would be better to have a second carrier and my iPhone 4 is AT&T.
Huge mistake. I have yet to see where I can get data with Verizon, but not AT&T. However, I have found several places where the opposite is true. Consistently, AT&T has *much* faster data speeds as well. Worse, of course is that the Verizon iPad 2 is pretty much wifi only outside of the US.
And… Verizon seems to screw around with my account all the time. My girlfriend has the same problem. They claim we’ve used more data than we did. They’ve been unable to charge the card and without warning the data plan is dropped leaving us without a connection sometimes when we’ve really needed it and had to spend time with customer support trying to resolve the situation.
In short, Verizon sucks for data as compared to AT&T. And I live in the San Francisco Bay area!
Verizon doesn’t work in my house, so F it.
isnt this article from 2010?