Misleading, at best – Cell Phone Coverage Map Review

Say you have 45,001 download speed samples for a hexagon: -- 45,000 test samples say download speed is "slow" (0 – 1.5 Mbps) -- 1 test sample says download speed is "faster" (25 Mbps +) They'll use that single "faster" sample to color the hexagon. They don't color based on the average speed of the 45,001 samples. They color it based on the best sample that's ever been found there — even if it's 1 out of 45,001. That's not accuracy. Even worse, the larger hexagons at zoomed out views are not aggregates of the smaller hexagons they encompass. They're taking the best color (dark blue for "faster", for example) and bubbling that up. One large hexagon can cover an entire small city. If that city had a single speed test of 25+ Mbps anywhere within the thousands of hexagons contained within the large hexagon, they'll color it as "faster" (dark blue) — characterizing an entire city as having great download speed — never mind that every other sample in the city, which may be 100,000 or more, could be "slow." Wait, what? I don't see how this app can be taken for anything other than fraudulent.
Review by Concerned_App_User on Cell Phone Coverage Map.

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