{"id":186027,"date":"2010-01-15T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5449135"},"modified":"2010-01-15T17:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T22:20:00","slug":"verizon-dominates-zagats-first-cellphone-carrier-survey-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/186027","title":{"rendered":"Verizon Dominates Zagat&#8217;s First Cellphone Carrier Survey [Rankings]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/thumb160x_011510-002-zagat.jpg\" class=\"left image158\" width=\"158\" \/>If Patrick Bateman had a cellphone, he&#8217;d probably be rocking a Droid (with a Phil Collins ringtone, natch) after Verizon topped four of six major categories in Zagat&#8217;s debut <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zagat.com\/promo.aspx?pn=191\">Wireless Carriers Survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Verizon scored high marks in Overall, Reliability, Coverage, and Customer Service, leading me to believe that perhaps this survey was taken before their <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5431184\/verizon-defends-350-early-termination-fee-to-the-fcc\">infamous $350 ETF<\/a>. AT&#038;T&#8217;s wide margin of victory in the Products category is likely due largely to the iPhone, while T-Mobile eeked out a win in Value, which, I guess it&#8217;s all relative.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lytebox\" href=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/zagatwirelesssurveyresults.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/500x_zagatwirelesssurveyresults.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But enough about winners! Let&#8217;s talk about Sprint. Dead last in three of the main six categories, not first in any of the extended sixteen. At least they get a Participant ribbon? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zagat.com\/promo.aspx?pn=191\">Zagat<\/a> and Image via <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/01\/zagat-releases-first-cellphone-carrier-survey-results.html\">Consumerist<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p> <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=96b8ae26bc2812cd9096405c7b952879&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=96b8ae26bc2812cd9096405c7b952879&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2226\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/SnS6hA5NiJ2QnedDNsQsn2SpZDM\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/SnS6hA5NiJ2QnedDNsQsn2SpZDM\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/SnS6hA5NiJ2QnedDNsQsn2SpZDM\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/SnS6hA5NiJ2QnedDNsQsn2SpZDM\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=KlFF4t_OMJc:Ey6Aw55kiRI:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=KlFF4t_OMJc:Ey6Aw55kiRI:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=KlFF4t_OMJc:Ey6Aw55kiRI:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=KlFF4t_OMJc:Ey6Aw55kiRI:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=KlFF4t_OMJc:Ey6Aw55kiRI:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=KlFF4t_OMJc:Ey6Aw55kiRI:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~4\/KlFF4t_OMJc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Patrick Bateman had a cellphone, he&#8217;d probably be rocking a Droid (with a Phil Collins ringtone, natch) after Verizon topped four of six major categories in Zagat&#8217;s debut Wireless Carriers Survey. Verizon scored high marks in Overall, Reliability, Coverage, and Customer Service, leading me to believe that perhaps this survey was taken before their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}