Static coverage maps are so 20th century. T-Mobile is moving from that traditional model of static coverage map that can often times depict where coverage “should” be, but in many cases isn’t. Now the Magenta Un-Carrier has launched a new coverage map that is called “Verified Coverage.” This is the first network carrier coverage map that is crowdsourced and customer-verified. Meaning that thanks to 3rd party app data, T-Mobile is able to verify the network connectivity that is being used on customer devices.
Features of our new coverage map include:
•Customer-verified coverage based on actual customer usage, resulting in a vastly more transparent and accurate map, showing, for example, exactly where you can expect 4G LTE, 4G, 3G or other levels of coverage.
•A Verified Coverage icon indicating where the majority of data is provided by T-Mobile customers reporting their actual network experience, providing an added layer of confidence.
•Data that’s updated twice monthly − compared to data presented on the carriers’ maps, which is already dated by the time it’s printed and published and may be months or even years old.
•Speed test data from trusted third party apps showing average download speeds from customer speed tests over the last 90 days.
It is a pretty stellar idea that is sure to help give current and would be customers a more accurate understanding of what they can expect in any area they live, work or travel too. Feel free to bounce over to the new T-Mobile Coverage map and take a gander at locations and see how they stack up.
Source: T-Mobile
