Cell Phone Service by 26 Major Metropolitan Areas, United States, 2009

Overall and city-by-city ratings based on 54,332 responses about regular (contract) and prepaid service from ConsumerReports.org subscribers surveyed in September 2009. The prepaid ratings are based on a seperate analysis of 3,257 respondents who had prepaid service. Reader score reflects respondents' overall satisfaction with their cell-phone service and is not limited to factors listed in the ratings charts. A score of 100 would mean all respondents were completely satisfied; 80 would mean very satisfied, on average; 60, fairly well satisfied.

This section shows information about this dataset's attributes
Attributes Range Median Mean Std. Dev.
City City column (no statistics available)
Major cell phone service city.
AT&T
 
57  to  73
66 65.73 3.69
AT&T average cell phone service customer rating.
Latitude
25.73  to  47.60
38.63 36.85 5.52
Latitude of metropolitan city.
T-Mobile
 
-1  to  73
71 59.46 26.40
T-Mobile average cell phone service customer rating.
Verizon
 
72  to  78
75 75.23 1.66
Verizon average cell phone service customer rating.
Sprint
 
-1  to  70
67 59.73 22.41
Sprint average cell phone service customer rating.
longitude
-122.42  to  -71.06
-86.15 -92.84 16.07
Longitude of metropolitan city.
State State or Province column (no statistics available)
State where metropolitan city is located.