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.

I receive and send calls frequently in this area and get very good reception. I understand Sprint is adding another tower very soon as well.

When I had Cingular, I could never get calls inside my house. Finally, they said that the towers out here in the Heights were not adequate. There was a dispute over a tower at 11th and Studewood some years ago. It is covered with a facade. So nobody wants to put adequate towers in this historical district. I explained this to Cingular and got out of my contract. I went with Verizon and have had no problem since. Evidentially their technology is better or something.

T-Mobile added a site in this area and my coverage improved greatly. The Waste Management land fill on fairbanks impacts coverage for most carriers because the land fill is so high.

There is no reception inside the buildings and poor outside

Although Virgin (had) a great prepaid deal (their rates have changed, although I'm still under the old plan), the reception is non-existent at home. Being that we're not all that far from I-45, I was surprised. I've also had a problem in certain commercial buildings in the Galleria area which is another place you'd expect good service. (I've noticed they don't offer a map showing their coverage area.) If you're on the road, especially major roads or freeways, there's no problems. Even though I will probably pay somewhat more, I'll probably be switching to another prepaid service so I can use it at home and because Virgin apparently doesn't offer free minutes with others on their plan.

Inside my house, I never get more than 2 out of 5 bars. A lot of times, I cannot get a call to go out, and calls never last more than 10-15 minutes before they are dropped. T-Mobile has got to improve its coverage in this developing neighborhood.

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..