Coverage Reviews for San Diego, CA

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Rating | Carrier | Location

Sprint

Sprint is updating their towers without a completion date and service has gone from average to horrible. I call almost every day and complain but they can't make their workers fix the issue and have no idea how long this will go on??? I have been with Sprint for a long time and was always happy until I moved to an area that is supposed to have strong 3G. WTH???

Sprint

I have had both AT&T and Sprint. Both carriers I needed a MicroCell in order to use their services. My girlfriend and friends who are all on Verizon have had no such issues.

T-Mobile

T-Mobile prepaid is ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE. And when you go over your "100-500MB" (even if you don't use 4g, they kick you down to 2G (yeah TWO) for the rest of the month. Say goodbye to all of your data, gps, etc... So much for their "wireless is broken" (false) advertising slogan.

T-Mobile

T-Mobile prepaid is ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE. And when you go over your "100-500MB" (even if you don't use 4g, they kick you down to 2G (yeah TWO) for the rest of the month. Say goodbye to all of your data, gps, etc... So much for their "wireless is broken" (false) advertising slogan.

Verizon

Reception is aweful. Never dropped calls before, but over the past semester since I've attended every phone call needs at least 4 to 5 callbacks to have a 2-3 minute conversation anywhere on campus. The campus has from 0-1 bar in most places where calls will not go through climbing to 2-3 bars with call drops every 2 minutes. Limited to texting and data over wifi and 3G.

Verizon

I have been getting 2.5 to 4.5 mbps upload the last few days and as low as 0.3 upload speed.

Sprint

Sprint 4g hotspots popping up around the I-15 and Rancho Bernardo area. Can anyone confirm. 15mbps download and 5mbps upload. I'm getting excited!

AT&T

I get zero at& t reception in my unit in South Mission beach. If I walk into street, I get one bar. I purchased a $200 AT&T Microcell booster which gives me 5 bars.

Sprint

Since almost the beginning of this year (2013) my reception in the area that I live has been HORRIBLE. Idk what is going. Every call I make in or around my home gets dropped, my internet doesn't work at all and my text messages come in late. I've never had a problem with Sprint before but its unmanageable

T-Mobile

Can't get reception inside my condo unit. Have to go outside on the street to get minimal reception to make calls. Currently use cable wifi, but it's slow. What's the point of 4G phone without being able to use it at your own home? Will switch as soon as the contract is up. Whichever carrier cares enough to cover the area will get my business.

Sprint

My reception has changed recently. from Average to Poor.

Verizon

Reception is good until the kids get out. Then the phone is not usable. So it is not coverage, but capacity. No matter, if you cannot use the phoe it is useless.

Sprint

I have been waiting for a while to get 4g but its not happening so Sprint can eat a dick until they get 4g in SD

Sprint

SPRINT is just going to milk the money that everyone continues to pay without actually making a written complaint or LAWSUIT! The service is nearly non existent and you cannot use NETFLIX or U TUBE at all. WAKE up PEOPLE with over 4000 COMPLAINTS on the internet and SAN DIEGO a MAJOR city has NO 4G----SCAM! for over 4 YEARS! CLASS ACTION SUIT IS NEEDED!Sprint will not do anything until COMPELLED to do it by a COURT ORDER!

Verizon

3G service is below average and voice calls drop frequently.

T-Mobile

iphone 5 on tmobile, only get edge at 0.04 kbps download speed, everywhere else in san diego county I get 3g at 12+ mbps download

Sprint

Coverage has always been spotty in certain areas of my apartment, but in the last month I've hardly been able to connect for more than a few minutes. It doesn't matter where in the apartment I am or if I go outside. My phone has full bars until I actually try to call someone and then it drops to no bars.

AT&T

Reception very poor in my house, usually 1 or 2 bars, sometimes 3. Even outside, it never exceeds three. Will contact ATT to see if I they will give me a femtocell. If not, will move to another carrier when my contract is up this summer.

Sprint

4G data connection is not strong. 3G data is available but speed is slow a few times. Voice calls cannot catch coverage in kitchen and bedroom.

Sprint

Sprint tower closest to this location down starting Jan 4, 2013. Terrible service since then. Chronic dropped calls. Airave is intended to improve signal, but unit not available to me at this time because tower is down, so they would not approve one for me. Possible tower fix by Jan 25, 2013. I have been loyal Sprint customer for over 15 years. When current contract expires I will seriously consider changing carriers.

Sprint

Either terrible reception or terrible data speeds everywhere in this city except downtown. And 4G? I'm not holding my breath anymore...

AT&T

completely no service most of time when I was at home. barely with one bar sometime. people cannot hear me clear or drop calls very easily. even though I set up the microcell tower to retrieve reception at home, it only last me couple months. now, it goes back to very poor or no reception. I have to go out of the apartment complex in order to make calls. AT&T sucks! It drives me crazy!

Verizon

Loyal Verizon customers for 6+ years. No more! Takes forever to load, we're throttled to next to zero reception. Wife has Pantech with unlimited 4G, must mean 4 Gillion years to download anything. The hotspot we got? What a joke. They replaced it twice, haven't been able to use it in months, yet we're still stuck paying $60 / month on a completely useless device. Verizon, it was a worthy ride until about a year ago. Seldom operable isn't an adequate description. Get ready to say goodbye to six accounts.

Sprint

I recently moved up here to Golden Hill from San Ysidro. I do see more of Sprint data connections connecting to eHRPD which means San Diego is preparing to launch 4G LTE for the first time a true 4G service from SPRINT, not like the wimax 4G service they kinda started but only got two towers up SMH but anyways for most part of San Diego, Chula Vista, National City, San Diego, and even at the airport I get great signal and great data speeds... .

AT&T

Occasional dropped calls and delayed messages or delayed voice mail warnings. I'm swtiching to Sprint...

Cricket

Excellent coverage in most areas except my back room of my condo.

Verizon

Been with Verizon since 1997 and for last couple for years reception has gotten horrible / none at all. Also drop calls on 94 freeway westbound right after college grove but picks right back up in seconds...

T-Mobile

Verizon, Sprint and ATT get NO bars at my house. Now that I'm on T-Mobile, I get all bars!

AT&T

I started with Cingular whichever to AT&T Mobility... initially I had coverage issues and almost switched. However with my iPhone 4S and 4G I'm totally happy now! They said they would improve coverage and they did! One secret is to occasionally "turn the phone off" to let it re-sync. So, very pleased with coverage all over San Diego, phone and Sarafai

AT&T

Barely get any reception at the hotel and at my place of work which is within 2 miles from here. ATT is really poor here in San Diego and would not recommend them if you are living here.

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