T-Mobile Updates Coverage Map with Customer Data
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Honesty. Thank you.
I just took a quick look. This is awesome.
The others may not want to do it because they might not look so good.
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I work for AT&T and we have a tool called GeoLink that does this exact thing already. Granted, it's not a tool the public can use, but it does show signal strength as reported by the devices.
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Why not make it available on their website so that potential customers can see the actual coverage?
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At least in my area, T-Mobile/Voicestream has always had more accurate maps than others. I checked it in several areas, and the map's depiction of varied signal strength was accurate within probably 100 feet.
Others usually had better overall coverage (with Verizon being especially good), but no good way to know if your specific home or job was covered well.
Verizon basically lied by filling in large areas as fully covered when I knew that to be false. When AT&T first switched to GSM here, they also lied and claimed "best network ever" when it was actually the worst (both their worst ever, and worse than everyone else), and they sure didn't have maps showing it.
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ATT was able to say they were the best because they bankrolled the network testing company. I don't remember the name of the company, I think their still around, but that's how they were able to claim the best network, the testing company they bankrolled was searching for places where ATT had better coverage, sometimes by feet.
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If you think this is honest, I hate to tell you this is no where near the truth. I have Verizon and my friend has Tmobile, when he comes to my town he's lucky to have 1 bar of 3G but this map shows strong LTE all around my area, hell even sprint has good coverage here. Don't get me wrong I'd love for Tmobile or Sprint to be a realistic challenger to Red and Blue but with their coverage maps that just isn't going to happen. Big Red and Blue cover close to 95% of the country and for all their issues Sprint and Tmobile can't come close to them, which maybe ok for some if you don't travel or go out of town ever but for others that simply isn't an option at all.
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