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Startup hopes to use user data to map quality of cell phone coverage
- From: Brian Warkoczeski
- Date: Tue Oct 13 11:23:42 2009
Crowdsourcing digital signal strength
Startup hopes to use user data to map quality of cell coverage
By Dan Richman
msnbc.com contributor
Oct . 12, 2009
AT&T promises "more bars in more places" — but which places? Verizon
Wireless proclaims "it's the network" — but does the network cover you
well in the places you live, work and travel?
Until now, cell phone users have had no detailed and impartial way to
assess and compare which network offers the best data and voice service
where they use their phones.
Root Wireless Inc., a Bellevue, Wash., startup, aims to change that.
Root's colorful online map, which debuted last week on CNET.com and is
currently usable only by consumers living in the eight U.S. markets
analyzed so far, shows voice and data signal strength for each of the
four major U.S. carriers. An intriguing plan calls for building out map
coverage through 200,000 volunteers nationwide, all armed with a
data-gathering app on their smartphones.
For the rest of the article, see:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33239992/ns/technology_and_science-wireless/
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