Carriers go to war over trivial statistics

Throughout the late months of 2015 and into 2016, a bloody, hard-fought, gruesome war raged on. This war was between the marketing teams of cell phone carriers Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile. Verizon created a commercial titled "A Better Network as Explained by Colorful Balls", which visualized statistics from an independent study in the form of small color-coded balls rolling down a ramp, with one ball representing a state win in the RootMetrics study.
Verizon had "won big" (insert massive small print) with 153 state wins, AT&T received 38, Sprint got two, and T-Mobile was left with none. The latter two carriers were left unhappy with the statistics provided in the commercial, and would each create their own parodies of it, mocking Verizon. Sprint created one to market their "LTE Plus" network, while T-Mobile created multiple commercials boasting about their 100M-customer increase, while also openly displaying how massively salty they were in regards to the study.
Most of these standalone commercials can be found on RUclips, including a U.S. Cellular commercial essentially putting shame to the "colorful ball wars" in a mother-telling-kids-to-quit-fighting sort of fashion. But until today, no definitive compilation has been uploaded to RUclips.
AT&T was the only major carrier that never made a response to the original commercial. Cowards.

[@TSwany]

who won, and why was it US Cellular?

[@KeepingUpWiththeCrowns]

Att because they never got involved

[@airworldpremium4472]

I believe roaming data on nebraska

[@darth_kal-el]

Given that US Cellular is getting bought by T-‘Mobile and Verizon it clearly wasn’t them

[@donthaveaboxnew]

@@darth_kal-el t-mobile devoured sprint

[@darth_kal-el]

@@donthaveaboxnew T-Mo is also in the process of buying US Cellular or do you not check the news.

[@Eeeeejjejsud7372]

Verizon just violated T-Mobile on the first ad

[@tyroland06]

Oh yeah, THAT era in advertising.

[@drhaydenwho4877]

last time ads where good

[@GamerboyZun]

Ok actually watching this and WDF THEY GOT STEVE HARVEY FOR THIS?
I like how AT&T just does nothing throughout all of this despite being pretty close to Verizon in the original commercial

[@WillOnSomething]

So, around the time this ad came out, there was a blunder that occurred at a beauty pageant that Steve Harvey was hosting, where Steve accidentally crowned the wrong contestant. T-Mobile took advantage of it, perfectly :D

[@Ame865]

I coulda swore I remember 2 other guys in these commercials and one of them was Jamie fox. The other was the guy from sprint with the catchphrase they tried so desperately to make catch on but it never did. “can you hear me now”

[@mackenziewachter2508]

AT&T: **vanishes**

[@otterwithadarkside4422]

I love how they were like "Yeah we're just not gonna get involved"

[@OllieisacopyofVeshremy]

Bro really was like "f*ck this sh*t im out

[@RTOF]

I wonder what the US department of justice would be thinking when they realize that breaking up the American Bell company in 1984 had lead to this madness

[@albertgonzalez8005]

1984 big bother is watching you

[@OllieisacopyofVeshremy]

Balls Wars ARG

[@TheOneAndOnlyCatfish.]

verizon: 308
t-mobile: 304
t-mobile: look at how cool we are!!!

[@OllieisacopyofVeshremy]

Wat💀

[@Imasavagex818]

A better network war explained by colorful balls and a human

[@otterwithadarkside4422]

I will never forget the ball wars

[@JustdanceJPFan]

That’s so nostalgic 😅

[@erichensley8739]

2:33 you mean commercial comparison in (

[@GamerboyZun]

wifi

[@skyelillian1077]

ᴘʀᴏᴍᴏsᴍ 😣

[@jonavene12]

Bot

[@shade221]

pro-tip: switch to an MVNO like us mobile or tello. i pay $8 a month for a better plan and identical service to what i had on verizon for $60, since im still technically on the verizon network, just through an MVNO.