If A > B, & B > C, is A > C?

Cellphone Coverage & The Law of Transitivity

I’ve been trying to find out which carrier — Sprint, Verizon, or AT&T — has the best coverage in my neighborhood, and the results of my informal survey so far are, to say the least, perplexing.

So, first I heard that Sprint was much better than Verizon.

Next, I heard that Verizon was far superior to AT&T.

Then yesterday, someone told me that AT&T left Sprint in the dust.

Which is kind of where I am at the moment.

P.S.:  Interestingly, the same phenomenon regularly seems to happen in sports. 

So, to come up with a hypothetical example, the Packers will beat the Vikings, the Vikings will beat the Lions — and then the Lions will beat the Packers!