Top 10 worst metro areas for mobile performance

These cities were ranked as the top 10 worst metro areas for mobile performance. Find out if yours made the list.

Written by Elijah Black
20th October 2015

These cities were determined to be the top 10 worst metro areas for mobile performance by RootMetrics, a mobile network ranking service. In total, 125 metro areas were measured across six categories: Overall performance, network speed, network reliability, data performance, call performance and text performance.

Each metro area’s network was tested for data, call and text performance from multiple angles. Additional considerations included a network’s ability to maximize capacity and coverage.

To see the top 10 best metro areas for mobile performance, click here.

For the complete rankings, visit Rootmetrics website.

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