I am unable to hold a conversation at home, I am required to go outside to receive one MAYBE two bars. I have tried to call AT&T multiple times to have someone come out and fix this problem in the area. They have not done anything for me and I am getting ready to move away from this company. They are horrible.

Call quality / reception and data is grest in my area.

The Galleria area has great reception for both voice and data.

Most often have to go the backyard to have a semi-reliable conversation. Front of house to kitchen most often hopeless. Will try T-Mobile now that AT&T not buying them.

AT&T Sucks ! I live 15 mins to Galleria, no signal in my apartment and in my office which is right opposite to William Tower. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH... Cant take it any more ! I am switching to Verizon.

Voice works some of the time. No problem with text or 3G.

Houston-When I travel from the Loop to downtown houston. Ialmost all have fropped calls or no recetion at all. IDK, and it really bugs the heck out of me, its like the Bermuda Triangle of AT&T service-no reception

Never get any reception here. Tried newer "3G" phones, usually get 1 bar, sometimes, if the planets are aligned, I can get 2 bars... The ATT customer service is probably the WORST that I have ever experienced... I don't have a contract anymore, but, I have stayed with them because I resist change. However, I only use my phone as a PHONE. Perhaps there are no carriers that remember this... . So Sad!

have ATT and get 0 to 1 bar in the apartment. My previous apartment just north of Pearland had perfect reception, was very happy. This area, I cannot talk to anyone on my iphone :(

I work downtown. I get no reception, ever. How does AT&T not have decent service downtown in the 4th largest city in the USA? WTF?

AT&T SUCKS! It drops every other call. Seems like they know this and don't care!

Poor reception throughout Rice campus, Med Center and now Upper Kirby. I always have to walk out of my house / workplace to receive calls, and reception is patchy at best even outside. Customer Service is pretty lousy as well, and they keep promising a tower in the Med Center "in a month". Lies, AT&T. I'm taking my business to Verizon starting next week.

Many dead spots at this location.

Worked great up until around April 2011. Then went to one bar. Numerous dropped calls, etc. Makes me think they have lost a tower in this area.

AT&T IS HORRIBLE IN HOUSTON. I have both AT&T and Verizon phones. The AT&T phone is pretty much a paperweight. The Verizon phone works great pretty much everywhere, even in the elevators and the tunnels. Go Verizon!

Nearly impossible to make and stay connected during a conversation.

Below average outside and Poor inside home

Very poor reception in a 1 to 2 mile radius or more surrounding this area. Dropped calls, poor reception, no reception and no 3G.

Horrible reception, either no data, slow 3G or sometimes Edge only. AT&T says they have a problem but have been "working on it" for months now. It seems to worse every day.

I work in the Med Center, and my reception has gone from poor to none lately at work AND at home (home is on Bissonnet) - this is incredibly frustrating because the only time I have coverage is when I'm transiting which is maybe twenty minutes a day. Several people I've spoken to with iPhones complain of this problem at the med center. Why won't AT&T give this area more towers?

All of a sudden this part of downtown has next to no service. Never had a problem until this year. It takes forever data to load, I have no access to wifi. Service seems to have suffered lately not just downtown but all over Houston.

No service this morning; then lousy connections with dropped calls. I thought AT&T was a "major player" in cell phones. If that's the case, then they'd better clean up their act in Houston or they've lost me as a subscriber. Their service is sub-par and pathetic.

Reception in this area still sucks over 2 years since Hurricane Ike. It was just ok before but no more than 3 bars outside and variable poor to nothing indoors with most calls over 3 mins getting dropped. Several calls to ATT nothing changed

Zero reception in my apartment 5 minutes from downtown Houston. AT&T covers 97% of America, but I guess the Museum District in Houston is part of the other 3%. I've had enough of paying money for no service. Switching to Verizon as soon as my contract is up next month.

The reception within The Methodist Hospital is horrible. I'm here for more than half the day (meaning half my life) and I do not have any reception. So I'm constantly missing calls and messages. I've contacted A&T on a monthly basis about this problem and they keep telling me that they are working on it but it's taking some time. It's 2010 almost 2011 and they never thought that they should put a antenna within the hospital or improve the reception within the Medical Center? With the amount of people that work here or patients that come here; you would think that someone in charge would actually have the intelligence to think that putting an antenna there to improve recepition and improve business.

Zero coverage in our near my house (5 minutes from downtown Houston). Drop calls on I-45 downtown. Regularly drop calls all over town. Can't get on internet except where Wi-Fi is available.

I have very good reception all over with my phone and my So has a lower grade phone and his is typically better. No complaints with service so far, calls, text and web are good. I'm just sick of this contract thing and want to try something else. Cricket or Boost anyone? No more contracts and super high phone bills! I want unlimited everything!

3 years ago ATT service was great in this location. Today I get nothing but dropped calls and network errors, maybe 1 bar outside, completely useless indoors. Even when I'm out and about around Houston with 4+ bars I still get dropped 70% of the time. It's possible that there isn't enough bandwidth available for all the stupid 'smart phones' the lemmings just have to have to be cool.

really bad, 1-2 bars, drops calls or fades in and out... .

Phone always drops call when going either east or west on I-10 between Beltway / Gessner

Reception is decent, but what plagues AT&T is calls dropped. I'll pay any money not to have my calls mysteriously get cut off if over 2 minutes. AT&T is aweful and the iPhone is superior. The new option for Verizon as a iPhone carrier will put enormous pressure on Ma Bell to allieviate their issues... hopefully!

I have never had a problem with dropped calls or reception in the Heights or anywhere throughout Houston. My contract is up and I'm considering switching over to T-Mobile, but their monthly rates are just as high as At&t's. In the past, I have had problems with At&t's customer service, but within the past 6 months, there has been considerate improvement. I may just stay with AT&T after all. Looks like they're making an attempt to compete rather just stay afloat with iphone craze. Iphone 3Gs, IMO is way over rated unless you want to surf the web on your phone. Definitely just a toy--not a business tool. I've also used the Samsung Blackjack---had no problems with it either. It's just a very outdated phone and I need to upgrade.

No problems

Calls dropped frequently but texting great. Calls also very static and difficult to hear. Can't wait for ATT contract to expire. Would not recommend them for cell phone service.

Crappy AT&T... how can they have a dead zone in the middle of the MEDICAL CENTER??!

In my apartment, my reception is zero (Sometimes I can place a call if I go out on the balcony). Everyone in our building has the same complaint with AT&T. Voice mail pops up 1-2 days later. When I'm out in the world, my phone vibrates once and I have a Missed Call At the Medical Center, while people everywhere are using wire-less, AT&T is use-less. I can't wait until 03 / 29 / 10. Then it's bye, bye AT&T. I wonder how Boost does?

it's terrible here. will change as soon as contract expires.

Zero reception in downtown Houston at Bank of America center!

AT&T is terrible in this area, and really bad in my apartment. It's terrible in the ship channel and terrible on the road on the way to work. I'm leaving AT&T and looking at this site for answers on who to go with.

The bars show up sometimes but even at 5 bars I drop calls. The call quality is horrible, conversation breaks up every 5 seconds or more. It's been like this all over Houston sinced I moved here a month ago. Had perfect reception in the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest before that. Am getting so frustrated that it will be worth the fee to switch over to Sprint or someone else.

Consistently maintain 5 bars in this area. No problems with 3G coverage inside my building.

This problem started about 3 months ago and has gotten steadily worse. The Apple store switched my phone out today because at least 75% of my calls were dropping. He said that if the new one does the same thing, it is AT&T. Sure enough, I got home with the new phone and five calls dropped right away. If you are thinking of a new iPhone or any other phone with AT&T as your service provider, be careful. The wireless service is unreliable and their customer service is pathetic.

No service in buildings, 1 or 2 bars outside (in the hot sun) but the calls drop even outside and the 3G works rarely. Tell me again why I am paying them >$100 a month?

I get very good service here on my street! I got outside I get all bars and I got inside and I get 4! PERFECT ATT! :)

90% of all calls are dropped inside and outside home. Customer service was anything but helpful. She suggested I get in my care and drive to make a call or receive one.

I usually get like 3 to 2 bars there. It's ok. I don't get dropped calls. And you can still text. But needs improvement. Like in the donut heaven at thAt intersection I only get one bar.

About 70% of the time, cannot make outgoing calls or receive incoming calls; same on wife's clamshell phone. Text messaging works, phone shows full bars. Same problem around Rice University. Problem has been going on for 2 months. Contacted ATT and they "worked" on the problem, sending an email declaring it was resolved. Whatever. I think they are out of bandwidth in area and won't admit to it - increase bandwidth.

I live one block from this intersection in the Royal Oaks subdivision and get very poor reception in my home. Reception in the street is slightly better but still poor. I actually have no reception about 75% of the time and one or two bars of reception 25% of the time.

We just moved here and all 4 of us with various phones have terrible reception! Is there any way to boost reception?

Receptio is not great outside, it's terrible inside. More bars in more places, whatever. Verizon is just as bad.

Downtown Houston, office of 200 employees. No reception from ATT...

Cant hold more than a 5 minute call. Wifes iphone cant call or recieve.

i get no signal at home or on the street I have to walk at least two blocks to get signal

Usually passing the Shell gas station coming from the Beltway 8 on W. Lake Houston the reception drops almost completely. Once entering the Lakeshore subdivision it'll disconnect or maybe get one bar. Cingular reception is usually very good, but everyone that comes out here has the same problem, especially inside the house. We'll have to go outside sometimes just to make / receive a call.

No reception in my house on in front of my house.

0 to no bars most of the time

Very very poor service. I always have to stand in the middle of the street talk. Even thought the bars show atleast 3, you can never have a peaceful conversation. In a 2 minute conversation, I end up saying hello for more than 90 secs.

Service is awful. We get no service inside the house. We have to stand in the middle of the street to get ATT calls. Quite inconvenient during rush hour.

Goes from no service whatsover to good but changes all the time.

I have had Verizon, and Sprint and Cingular / ATT in this house and Cinglar / ATT has been the best reception not only here but in office buildings in the different "downtows" of Houston as well as on the road. I don't use the internet much on the phone but we like the rollover minutes (are they going away?) and the family plan plus calling between people on this network is unlimited. I remember when Houston Cellular switched to Cingular and its coverages was really bad and had tons of dropped calls. It is much better since then, but now that it is ATT I am sure they will try to tweak the number of consecutive calls on their antennas and service could drop. Hope they don't.

I avareage 3 bars even inside my home. I have never missed a call unless I ignored it. Gota say love this phone I download MB every day from the internet and talking is a dream.

Outside the building I get 4 bars easy, sometimes 5. Inside I get 2 which is incredible seeing as Im inside a concrete and steel building with no windows at atleast 2' thick walls. MCC

Even though the number of bars was good the reception was terrible. Couldnt talk within the apartment.

I never seem to have a problem around my house. No dropped calls and full signal. This is important because my kids need to be able to get hold of me when they are out.

Since Cingular is ATT..is going downhill... FAST!

Good when was Cingular..not the best but it was decent... horrible ever since it's ATT..indoors and outdoors... does not matter anymore... dead spots everywhere

i have been living here since nov. of 2006. perfect reception until 2 weeks ago (current date june 22 2007). something must have changed in the local area. everything in my apartment is exactly the same, but my razr only works (within 3 blocks of my house) 2 out of 5 times. anyone else in 77090 having cingular / att problems?

Downtown in the 4th largest city inthe country on one of the most traveled streets in the city and no service. Cingular / ATT service coverage is really ragged in Houston but this area is the worst.

Good reception if you are not indoors. Some calls go directly to voice mail but Cingular does a fair job in this area. Cingular service people are not very helpful in resoving issues with dropped calls when they happen. They act big and it shows.

Several phones over several years and still seem to lose calls around this intersection.

i just moved from new orleans to woodland heights and have had Cingular for 3 or 4 years, even worked during the hurricane. I am on my second new phone in a month, calls are dropped every few minutes, sound garbled and they keep telling me to call customer service (which I did once and was on hold for over an hour). horrible everything with Cingular since moving to houston. I am very confused which carrier to go with.

When we moved in 2yrs ago was outstanding signal inside and out. Then in December 2006 they started the tower mergers and it totally sucks. No signal indoors now at all, outside is barely 2 bars and drops calls usualy every 10 minutes. More than a dozen support calls and they have the gall to tell me it due to being too close to the tower of all things, causing an umbrella effect on the treo's. I can see the tower from the porch less than 1 / 2 mile away. Its a joke of an answer from them because I go to other towers and stand right under them and the phone works like a champ. Trying to get them to believe this tower here has issues is like talking to the wall. Its so easy to tell where the towers are loacted from there coverage maps, and drive to them. I've tried now at several and same results. I have a Sprint work phone, works great at same place. Wife got fed up and droped her Cingular for a T-Mobile and that's also doing great. I'll probably drop them also but I love the outlook intergration I got going with the treo.

There is no reception inside the buildings and poor outside

Many drops when passing this area.. Approx 1 mile north and south of this point on Hwy. 290 will drop signal or loose connection.. Very poor / weak..

Works ok (at best) throughout Clear Lake and Houston, just not in our neighborhood, Bay Glen. Why do we need roll over minutes when we can't use the service at home where most of the "long" calls are needed? We have 500 mins on family plan with two phones. We roll over at least 300 every month. What a rip.

Get great reception along Barker Cypress and Fry Rd. No dropped calls but I did just upgrade my phone.

Replaced a V551 with the V3. Super reception now.

Reception is terrible outside a few buildings on Memorial drive. It is apparent that Cingular does not support 1900 MHz very well and uses 850 MHz which in truth is good for rural areas requiring fewer towers. Cingular needs to step up and at least be as good as an average cell phone provider in getting rid of obsolete technology and move to 1900MHz as a standard.

VERY choppy calls. Trying to find a better service now, i'm sick of Cingular

Never get good reception inside my house. Need to go outside to guarantee decent reception.

This comment is for 3G reception (broadband card for laptop). Half the time it works okay; the other half it switches to the much slower EDGE network. If I drive to Longenbaugh and 6, though, the reception is great.

poor reception transfered from out of market service was better with a out of state area code i also transfered a Nokia d311 pc card modem same thing bad service indoors a nd frequent no service

Have used a Cingular phone in this area for sometime, no dropped coverage

As was coming from I-10 to Barker Cypress, by Saum head to Greenhouse the call drop. I guess it must be the phone because friends and relations that have Cingular service with phone that have Antena does not have these drop call issues.

I just changed service from T-Mobile to Cingular on 6 / 8 / 06 whose service / reception was great. With T-Mobile in the office I get reception, but with Cingular can't get reception in my office except I go outside into the open. The calls even drop, had to redial several times on one conversation you imagine the mess and hassle. Even on the road (Hempstead, Pinemont, Clay / Beltway8) the calls drop I only changed to Cingular because of the roll-over if not T-Mobile service was great. But it look as if am going to re-think.

Had Cingular but lost phone and company switched to ATT. Reception with Cingular was bad at home and at work but wonderful everywhere else. New ATT phone miserable too. Works all over the world but not at my house. Cingular says if I upgrade to a Cingular phone I will get better reception but of course cant do that till my contract is out. Have hated ATT for years. Now I can hate Cingular too... ... ... .

Reception comes and goes, mostly goes. Strong signal for a few minutes, then "no service". No service is much more common.

Poor reception in and around Clear lake City Blvd.since 2001 on different GSM phones. Reception in my home which is in this immediate area is weak and unreliable. Carrier states that my zone is in between areas of moderate and high coverage. WTF is that supposed to mean?

Neither my wife (TDMA) nor I (GSM) get any reception from Cingular in or near our home. The 6820 has a strong radio, but doesn't pick up a signal that isn't there.

Sometimes work when standing outside. Otherwise, reception is terrible.

Lots of dropped calls, sometimes the call doesn't even go through. Coverage is spotty

Constantly being dropped or can't make calls at all. When people call me, goes straight to VM without ringing. While my colleagues has no problem using Verizon phone. Other parts of the town works okay for me.

AT&T Wireless TDMA. Goes to ROAM at home, but starts to work outside. Other providers have good receptions at home.

Always seems to drop sharply after the call is established. Have to make multiple calls to complete a conversation.

Crappy service, drops calls after several minutes, never more that 3 bars... .plain sucks.

Service in this area was great until a few days before hurricane Rita, when it tanked all over town. On the local news Cingular reps blamed the problems on high call volume. Afterward, service improved in many places, but not here.

Coverage in this area is spotty at best while driving on San Felipe. Inside the building, I can hardly get any reception. The phone sometimes searches for a signal for 20-30 minutes and calls that are received are being cut off when I turn my head a little bit. T-Mobile has better coverage in this area, although it may be analog.

Reception sucks inside apartment. I keep missing incoming calls, and calls drop when I make calls. This has happened to all my friends / family who have used their cell phones in my apt. Looks more like the location / geometry of the apt.

One more thing, the "reception bar icon" on the phone is a joke. Personally I think it is written in the software on the phone to stay full or very high on idle - for their "more bars in more places." I guess they don't mean more reception. More like false advertising. Right now my phone is showing full reception, but as soon as I call out it will drop to 1 bar and the call will be inaudible.

I can actually look out of my office window and see a tower less than 1000 ft away, but still can't use this phone in the area. I would say the reception would be in between "No Reception" and "Poor". I can call out and receive calls, but only about 5% quality. I have called cingular, but they don't really care. I think GSM has less coverage / quality than my old TDMA.

Great reception pretty much every where in town and most places in Southeast, East, and Central Texas. Often better than friends Verizon Wireless phones.

I'm switching carriers because I never get a signal in this area where I live. I've also heard that it rates lowest in the Houston area.

Receptions been very good for me in this part of town and just about everywhere I seem to go. I'm starting to think that maybe the cell phone is exceptional. When I had a Nokia with ATTWS, I had signal trouble consistently, but with the T-637 on Cingular it's been suprisingly great.

Switching very soon due to extremely poor reception or no reception or dropped service around Sugar Land and along Hwy. 6 and many other areas.

it has really good reception

I get no reception in my office with Cingular. I also have a work cell phone that is with T-Mobile and I get full bars??

Can't receive calls and 90%of the time can't call out on our Cingular phones in this area.

Cingular gets very poor reception in the Galleria Area

It may just be my MPx200 that's the issue, but anything I would go north of I-10 near between Kirkwood and the Sam Houston Tollway, I get absolutely no reception.

I've been with Cingular for about 4 years and it's time to go. Lately I have had a lot of dropped calls from my house and don't receive calls at all sometimes. The phones have not been good either and Cingular has hardly done anything to help. I've been the one purchasing the phones in hopes of finding something better. They finally sent me a new phone only to discover the camera did not work. It's time to move on.

Spotty reception in my house -- could be the lead paint or my crappy handset. Contacted Cingular / AT&T many times -- they provided new phone but problems persist. Other folks (including Cingular customers) don't have any problems with receiving service in our home, so I don't think it's the paint (probably no lead in it anyway). -xebtron

GSM reception on this phone is good in the area. However, if I try a Motorola E398 that is set for 1900mhz, it catches AT&T instead and reception is quite poor.

many dropped calls. Carrier claims due to aircraft at Hobby airport.

The cell phone receives a very bad signal. The bars are all the way up but the calls are horrible to hear.

I am unable to use my cell phone anywhere in my neighborhood. Once in a while I can make a call but after a few seconds the connection is dropped. I have to drive about a mile either way down Fry Rd before I can use my phone. Very annoying.

I have had mobile phones for approximately 18 years. Never has reception been so poor so consistently. In certain spots, at certain times of the day, I will get 3 bars; however, this is the exception rather than the rule.

I just switched from T-Mobile to Cingular and now get reception inside my house and outside. In fact the areas where T-Mobile reception was spotty and poor is now perfect with Cingular. I get reception in my parking garage and the building elevator, just excellent reception overall. Very pleased.

Lots of dropped calls at UH. Reception is horrible there.

Cingular continues to promise help without success. The tech guys are baffled why the signal drops off so quicklu from the tower at fry and I10. I cannot use my phone anywhere close to my home location.

I had Sprint for 3 years and could never get a signal inside my home. In sprint's defense my 3-year old Samsung was probably to blame. Anyway I read online that the 850 GSM phones had better reception inside buildings. I try not to believe everything I read, but I couldn't find any information to the contrary and I was willing to try anything to be able to place a call on my cell phone from inside my house (I know that's a novel idea). With the new phone and service, I now get 5-6 out of 7 bars inside my house. I went to a Lowe's where I was ALWAYS on analog roam as soon as I stepped through the door. With the new phone I had 4 out of 7 bars and placed a call to my house out of sheer excitement. It worked like a charm. I've only had the service for a day so I'll post again after the honeymoon is over...

Always get great reception, throughout Houston and College Station.

I really don't have any major complaints about my reception. It has served me well, except for indoors at the Medical Center. I think that the concern is the conversion over to GSM, it appears that Cingular is still very limited in its coverage.