"sprint sucks": a scientific survey

Problem: overages Hypothesis: Sprint Sucks Procedure: Searched Google for "xxxxx sucks" replacing xxxxx with a wireless company. Note that a search w/o quotation marks in inaccurate, as a page that says "you got a free phone from sprint? you suck!" would be returned. Compare this with total usage statistics.

Data:

Number of Google results for:
"verizon sucks"	507
"verizon wireless sucks"	674
"cingular sucks"	4320
"cingular wireless sucks"	733
"virgin sucks"	7220
"virgin mobile sucks"	38
"sprint sucks"	4260
"sprint pcs sucks"	2320
"tmobile sucks"	486
"t-mobile sucks"	3400
"nextel sucks"	4980

Tier I Carrier Ranking
2004

Rank	Carrier	Subscribers
1	Cingular Wireless	49.1 million
2	Verizon Wireless	43.8 million
3	Sprint PCS	24.8 million
4	T-Mobile	17.3 million
5	Nextel*	16.2 million
Source: In-Stat and Wireless Week Research *Includes Boost Mobile

*from Wireless Week

Analysis: It's clear that Cingular, Sprint, and Nextel are the cell phone companies that people complain the most about (results for "virgin sucks" thrown out after realizing primarily what kind of sites that search returned). If you look at the overall number, Sprint by far has the most complaints; but then again, some of the "sprint sucks" websites are referring to the landline part of that company. Try breaking it down to complaints per capita/user. Cingular/ATT is the nation's largest network. Proportionally, it ought to have twice as many complaints as Sprint. This takes Cingular out of the picture, leaving Sprint and Nextel and adding T-Mobile as the most complained about cell phone companies, per capita. Conclusion: Sprint is one of the suckiest, stay away from it. (yeah--I'm gunning to be on the first page of google results for sprint sucks). No this study is not commissioned by Verizon. Oh no, it looks like Sprint and Nextel will merge!