T-Mobile Announces Fourth Straight Highest Ranking in JD Power & Associates’ Customer Satisfaction Study
You can say whatever you want about T-Mobile’s selection of phones and the network they rely on, good or bad, but you have to be pretty impressed with the announcement that for the fourth straight time, T-Mobile ranked highest in J.D. Powers and Assoicates’ Wireless Retails Sales Satisfaction Study. They also had the distinct honor of being 1 of 40 companies to be named a “Service Champion.”
Were T-Mobile to win the award once or twice over the past years that is an accomplishment enough, but four times straight means somebody at this company is doing something right. To earn the highest overall rank, T-Mobile also was tops in the four areas measures: sales staff, price/promotion, store facility, and store display.
Good on you, T-Mobile. Good on you. Full press release below.
T-Mobile USA Tops Fourth Consecutive Retail Customer Satisfaction Study
Company Honored With Additional Distinction as a “Service Champion” Across Twenty Industry SectorsBELLEVUE, Wash. – Feb. 17, 2011 – T-Mobile USA, Inc. continues its streak of recognition for excellence in customer satisfaction with the fourth consecutive highest ranking in J.D. Power and Associates’ Wireless Retail Sales Satisfaction StudySM. In the Volume 1 results announced today, T‑Mobile ranked not only highest overall, but in each area for which the study measured customer satisfaction.
“To achieve this ranking even once is an honor. To see T-Mobile ranked highest four consecutive times reflects the hard work our retail sales employees put into ensuring a consistently excellent sales experience each and every time a customer walks through the door,” said Ami Silverman, senior vice president of sales, T-Mobile USA. “Beyond the value of T-Mobile’s devices and plans, it’s the value of our people that retains our customers’ loyalty and trust, and that’s something we never take for granted.”
T-Mobile continues to reap the rewards of its focus on the entire retail customer experience, from employees’ commitment to customer satisfaction at retail locations, to the value of its device and plan offerings at those locations. According to the study results announced today, T-Mobile surpassed all other national wireless carriers in both the overall retail satisfaction ranking, and in each of the following four categories that make up that ranking:
Sales staff
Price/promotion
Store facility
Store displayT-Mobile also received recognition today as a J.D. Power 2011 Customer Service Champion—one of only 40 companies to have earned this distinction this year. To qualify for inclusion on this elite list, companies must not only excel within their own industries, but also must stand out among leading brands in 20 major industries evaluated by J.D. Power and Associates.
The Wireless Retail Sales Satisfaction StudySM result and recognition as a 2011 Service Champion comes on the heels of T-Mobile’s second-consecutive highest ranking in J.D. Power and Associates’ Wireless Customer Care Performance StudySM only two weeks ago. T-Mobile has topped the rankings in the two previous Wireless Retail Sales Satisfaction Studies and in the four previous Customer Care Performance Studies1, demonstrating the company’s commitment to delivering superior customer service wherever customers need it: Online, over the phone and in retail stores.
Results of the 2011 J.D. Power and Associates Wireless Retail Sales Satisfaction StudySM Volume 1 are based on 8,501 Internet survey interviews conducted between July 2010 and December 2010.
More information about J.D. Power and Associates studies can be found at http://www.jdpower.com.