Remember Ricky Gervais? You know, that guy from The Office? No, not The Office with Jim and Pam, the one that aired 15 years ago on BBC. Well, Verizon Wireless remembers him. So much so that the carrier enlisted Gervais to throw a few barbs at Sprint for some reason.
Here’s the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkjylYRI29E
Here’s the entirety of Gervais’s message: “Verizon is the No. 1 network in America. I know what you’re thinking – they all claim stuff like that. Yeah, but some of them stretch the truth. One said they were the fastest. We checked. It was fastest in Kansas City and a few other places. Verizon is consistently fast across the country. You wouldn’t want to hear from the bloke who patched a parachute, ‘it’s good over Kansas.’ Do you know what I mean? So that’s, anywhere else, splat.”
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After delivering his lines, Gervais walks off camera and a voice over kicks in: “Only Verizon is the No. 1 network for consistently fast speeds.”
Network testing outfit RootMetrics in February released its latest nationwide report on wireless carrier network performance, drawing various reactions from the country’s largest operators depending on how they fared. The results, which included just the nation’s four largest operators and were conducted over the second half of 2015, showed Verizon Wireless with the top overall performance across five tested metrics: network reliability, network speed, data performance, call performance and text performance. In terms of “overall performance,” Verizon Wireless garnered a 94.5 score from RootMetrics, followed by a 91.3 score for AT&T Mobility, 86 score for Sprint and 80.9 score for T-Mobile US.
Here’s another video from the same campaign that more directly attacks Sprint:
https://youtu.be/TCFnaU88FZM