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Under its “uncarrier” umbrella T-Mobile has taken certain steps that have shaken up the wireless industry in the United States. It started off with the Jump! phone upgrade program and now includes services like Data Stash. The carrier has now turned its attention towards carriers’ coverage maps. T-Mobile is doing away with “old-school” coverage maps and is introducing its Next-Gen Network Map which relies on “real-time customer experiences.”

Most carriers put their maps together based on “predictive coverage estimations.” T-Mobile says that they’re inherently flawed since they’re based on estimates.

For its network T-Mobile has introduced the first and only crowdsourced, customer-verified network coverage map that will provide information based on the experience of real customers.

The real-time customer experiences will be based on over 200 million actual customer usage data points collected every day. To further augment its data T-Mobile will also incorporate customer data from third-party sources like Inrix and many others.

Thus T-Mobile’s new coverage map will be more accurate and transparent. It will also have a verified coverage icon to indicate where majority of the data is provided by its customers reporting on their actual experience.

The data will be updated twice monthly and speed test data from “trusted third party apps” will show average download speeds that customers experienced over the last 90 days.

Magenta’s Next-Gen coverage map can be viewed here.

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