Every six months RootMetrics® releases its US Mobile Network Performance report, a comprehensive look at how the top four carriers are performing. The data is based on more than 265,000 miles of drive tests and 4,200 indoor location tests conducted across all 50 states, covering 100% of the population.



Today’s report covering the first half of 2016 validates what we already knew – that Sprint continues to make strong improvement, despite being significantly outspent by the competition. In the past six months we saw notable gains in network reliability at the Metro level as we expanded our LTE coverage and increased our number of LTE Plus markets to 237. We’re proud of the progress we’re making and we clearly see the benefits of our 2.5 GHz deployment.



Consider the following 1H16 RootMetrics results:



We increased the number of network reliability awards received by 75% in the past six months, from 24 to 42 shared awards in the 125 Metro areas tested, including wins in markets such as Chicago, Houston, and Atlanta.