T-Mobile has introduced a new customer-verified coverage map delivering near real-time experience to customers.
The Next-Gen Network Map is the industry’s first and only crowd-sourced, customer-verified network coverage map, the company claims.
The map also incorporates additional customer usage data from trusted third party sources, including Inrix.
For years, every carrier has produced their network map in the same way, based on ‘predictive coverage estimations.’ The problem is that these maps are exactly that—best estimates, T-Mobile said.
With next-generation network maps, carriers are now able to produce far more accurate coverage maps, based on the actual experience of real customers.
T-Mobile’s new Next-Gen Network Map uses more than 200 million actual customer usage data points every day as well as additional customer usage data from third-party sources, including Inrix and others.
The map includes 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 indicates where the majority of data is provided by T-Mobile customers reporting their actual network experience.
The map also includes speed test data from trusted third party apps showing average download speeds from customer speed tests over the last 90 days.
