T Mobile Rated as 3rd most hated company in 2012

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/10-most-hated-companies-in-america-2013-01-14

by tesmar2 • 14 years ago

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curlypaul924• 14 years ago

Who picked these choices?

Seriously, do that many people really hate facebook and JC Penny?

icebraining• 14 years ago

Regarding Facebook, it doesn't surprise me, for a simple reason: they're one of very few companies that people feel like they have to use it, for fear of being left out socially¹, so disgruntled users will tend to feel worse and worse about it.

It doesn't necessarily mean more people dislike FB, just that the ones who do learn to really hate it by prolonged usage.

¹I'm not saying I agree with this view, just that it's common.

freehunter• 14 years ago

Yeah, like RIM and Nokia. I can see not liking them or not caring about them, but honestly who would go out of their way to actually hate a failing cell phone maker?

I'd like to see some data, some reasoning, something to help me make sense of this information being thrown at me. Without that, this post is completely garbage. RIM and Nokia are hated because their marketshare is declining?

thisone• 14 years ago

Title might want to add "..in the USA".

Tloewald• 14 years ago

This seems to be more about disappointed investors than "people". That said, one has to wonder when j.c.penny's strategy is supposed to start working.

shellac• 14 years ago

...in US. There are quite a few T-Mobiles.

tokenadult• 14 years ago

I'll note for the record that the Hacker News guidelines

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

currently say, "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait." The original title of this article was "10 most-hated companies in America," which runs into another Hacker News guideline, "If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," which comes just before the general guideline to use the original title.

I'll also note for the record that I'm a reasonably satisfied long-term customer of T-Mobile. I started with predecessor company, Voicestream, back when it was the only GSM network in my town. I like to use GSM phones for international travel. I started using mobile phones when I lived in Taiwan. I'll have to agree that T-Mobile investors must be disappointed by T-Mobile's market share in the United States.

bunderbunder2• 14 years ago

Add to it that the title misrepresents the nature of the article. This doesn't seem to be a list of the top ten most hated companies, as ranked by some metric. It's just a list of ten companies that did really poorly in 2012, in no apparent order.

So the fact that T-Mobile is the third item the list does not in any way imply that T-Mobile is somehow the "3rd most hated company".

aphexairlines• 14 years ago

Hated by some writer at marketwatch.com. What does that even mean?

GotAnyMegadeth• 14 years ago

Do you have TalkTalk in the USA? They seem to have won all of the worst customer service awards here in the UK for the last few years. Also in my experience, they are easily the worst company I've ever dealt with.

bunderbunder2• 14 years ago

For the record, "hated" is something of a term of art in investing. It's just colorful language used to describe the situation where a company's share price has tanked because nobody has any confidence in its long-term prospects.

It doesn't necessarily mean that consumers hate the company, although a poor overall consumer opinion is frequently a part of the equation.

noisewaterphd• 14 years ago

As a former AT&T, and Verizon customer, I just needed to say that T-Mobile is by far the best carrier I've ever had. Here in SLC their 4G is very fast, their customer service is so much better than the others (they have always gone above and beyond to help me, I haven't a single bad thing to say about them), and I couldn't care less about the iPhone. If this is really true, then it is genuinely 'news' to me.

T Mobile Rated as 3rd most hated company in 2012

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