What is the best mobile provider in the Bay Area and San Francisco?

This is a controversial question, but according to rootmetrics's results AT&T and T-Mobile provide a very good performance in the San Francisco area ahead of Verizon, while Sprint is lagging pretty far behind.

In detail:

• Call Performance: no major differences between AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Sprint
• Data Performance: AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon strong, only Sprint is lagging far behind
• Text Performance: no major differences, again Sprint slightly behind
• Combined Performance: AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon strong, only Sprint lagging far behind

More:

• RootMetrics Coverage Map San Francisco
• Sensorly Coverage Maps
• RootScore Report San Francisco Bay Area
• PCMag -  Fastest Mobile Networks 2013

See also the following post:
Where to get a mobile phone/cell phone and how much is it?


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