Verizon en tête du rapport RootMetrics sur les opérateurs

Verizon is a top carrier known for its reliable coverage, though Big Red is often met with disgust because of its expensive pricing on data, the type of pricing that T-Mobile shuns these days. T-Mobile has been making waves with its “UNCarrier” campaign, luring away Big Red customers in particular, in the hopes of helping them see that data (and life) are better with Magenta instead of the deeper color carrier. Well, the latest carrier report from RootMetrics is bound to upset Magenta and its customers, as it shows that Big Red carrier Verizon Wireless is still the best carrier in the land.

Le rapport sur les opérateurs a classé les quatre principaux opérateurs (AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile et Sprint) dans six catégories et a révélé que Verizon surpassait les trois opérateurs concurrents dans chacune d'entre elles. Selon RootMetrics :

Verizon’s performance in our testing of the United States was outstanding. Pour la première fois depuis que nous avons commencé à tester l'ensemble des États-Unis au second semestre 2013, Verizon a remporté les prix RootScore des États-Unis dans les six catégories RootScore.: Performances générales, fiabilité du réseau, vitesse du réseau, performances des données, performances des appels et performances des textes. Il est peut-être tout aussi impressionnant de constater que Verizon a remporté le prix RootScore global des États-Unis pour la sixième fois consécutive (la police en gras est de moi).

In other words, Verizon has made a clean sweep in all six of the RootMetrics categories in the carrier report, a feat that few other than Big Red have pulled off in the last six years. In other words, Verizon’s performance in 2016 is even more impressive than its performance in 2015. Second to Big Red came in AT&T with an overall score of 89.9 points, followed by Sprint with 85.5 points, and T-Mobile in fourth place with 82.5 points. Sprint has made great strides in metro areas, RootMetrics notes, but the once giant carrier is still failing to make any inroads in rural areas — the same Achilles’ heel as fourth-place T-Mobile.

Verizon customers are said to be crazy, to pay more for great service and reliable coverage than their T-Mobile counterparts, but even T-Mobile would sell its right arm to have these stats. Yes, there are many consumers that’ll tell you to “choose the one that works for you,” but I want to put my money down on the best. In the RootMetrics carrier report, it doesn’t get any better than Verizon.

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