According to Google, Sprint is the suckiest cellphone company. When you query “____ sucks,” filling in the name of different providers, Sprint returns the most results. Here’s how all the providers stacked up:
Helio: 427
T-Mobile: 745
Alltel: 3,500
Verizon: 20,000
AT&T: 22,500
Sprint: 31,000
Note that these results bear no discernible relation to the same companies tested against “___ is the coolest,” thereby underscoring this experiment’s utter frivolousness.
(Photo: Meghann Marco)
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This is your suckiest article.
I would comment, but ATT might terminate my contract.
305,000 for “pelicans suck,” in response to my previous comment. I’ve learned something here. People like pelicans more than they hate them
It seems like these numbers should be normalized for the total number of subscribers. Maybe so few people think Helio sucks because so few people use Helio.
Of course, if you’re admitting the experiment is frivolous anyway, I suppose it doesn’t matter.
Is it just me or does anybody else find it funny when the food restaurants want us to eat gain anthropomorphic qualities such as the Hot Dog King?
Like the chicken wearing glasses on my plastic cup telling me “It’s all so good!”
This is the suckiest filler ever.
@JRuiz47: Eating a cell phone is a bad idea
In addition to normalising the numbers for the total number of subscribers, you need to also address the fact that Sprint, Verizon and AT&T also provide other services that may, indeed, also suck.
RIAA sucks = 1,030,000
Thinking that the Mt Everest of suckitude, I nontheless try:
Walmart sucks = 228,000
THAT seems low. Do we pick on Walmart too much? Or, an alternative spelling is needed?
Wal-Mart sucks = 245,000
Giving us 473,000 total.
On a whim, we try, counterintuitively:
Wal*mart sucks = 2,480,000
BONANZA! (2,953,000 ttl)
Which goes to show… The internets like asteriks?!
@Hossofcourse:
LOL. Then why do they call it “BlackBerry”?
@JRuiz47:
They were going to call it the “WhiteBerry”, but then they decided that some diversity would be good PR.
To quote a past article….
Results 1 – 10 of about 42,400 for “Lowes Sucks”.
BEAT THAT LOWES!
42,400 for “Lowes Sucks”.
HAH!
What exactly constitutes the ‘suckage?’
I ask because Helio uses Sprint towers, and having one be ‘super great’ as noted by the other article and then the provider that it uses is the absolute ‘suck’ in another is odd.
I used to use a Sidekick and one time I had to pass by the Danger (company that makes the Sidekick phone) compound in California, I checked my signal meter and what do I see? No signal! Right next to the company that makes the phone! Way to go T-Mobile!
I dunno, I realize it’s a joke article, but I’ve had Sprint for 2 years now, and I’m generally happy with my coverage and fees. Now, I do think it is ridiculous what they have raised their text message rates to, so…I don’t text.
No question that Sprint has the most suckiest customer service in the solar system
Well, sprint has been around longer than helio so it had more time to rack up “sucks” references.
I’ve had Sprint for nearly a decade and they’re usually pretty good day-to-day. The plans can be decent if you pick carefully.
However, every time I’ve changed my plan or added a phone, I can count on having to make a series of calls to customer service and spent a couple of hours trying to resolve things. They usually mess up the billing at first.
I’ve changed my plan 3 or 4 times, and it happens every time.
@Trai_Dep: asterisk (*) is a wild card search character. Wal*Mart sucks will find and string containing Wal(anything: dash, space, platypus)Mart in connection with the word sucks.
My experience with Sprint so far has been entirely satisfactory. I got the plans I wanted at the price I wanted without an argument or any tricks, the service works flawlessly, the bills are easy to understand and exactly as I expect, and my cellular modem is often faster than my cable modem.
I’m not sure that AT&T *Cellular* deserves all of the 22,500 results. They have other businesses.
“t-mobile sucks” returns 755 results…
“tmobile sucks” returns 1400 results…
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“t-mobile sucks” OR “tmobile sucks” returns 920 results…
Speaking of cool/suckiest companies, how’s our portfolios of top/bottom customer satisfaction companies doing?
keep in mind to ‘sprint’ is to run, maybe a lot of people hate running…
This all gets really old. Pick any cell phone company, and you can always find people who have had bad experiences with them. My worst experience has been with Nextel, from a customer service standpoint as an individual. My corporate accounts with Nextel have been trouble free.
Ive had issue with AT&T, T Mobile, and Verizon… I havent had a problem yet with Sprint, but that doesnt mean anything.
The real “sucking” seems to be the recent crop of BS articles that have been featured here.
@Keter: hehe. of course. forgot that.
thanks!