Coverage Reviews for Houston, TX

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Rating | Carrier | Location

T-Mobile

Signal drops when you get on the Ship Channel going either direction.

Sprint

Usually get 2 bars inside the house in Deerfield Subdivision. Frequently drops calls. I used to have Cingular and changed to Sprint due to spotty Cingular service out of state. That was a mistake. Went from bad to worse with Sprint.

Verizon

I have had good recieption in this location ever since I got my phone. My wifa has a Razr [on Verizon] and her signal is good also. Some friends with fancy phones and other providers have even experienced weak and sometimes no signal. Intersting even though there seem to be very few towers close by.

AT&T

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?

T-Mobile

Signals OK outside... but as soon as I step into my office building... its wiped away! Other than this building... never had peoblems before... anywhere. No dropped calls.

T-Mobile

Signals OK outside... but as soon as I step into my office building... its wiped away! Other than this building... never had peoblems before... anywhere. No dropped calls.

Nextel

Nextel sucks. I used to sell cell phones for 7 years and Nextel has and always will suck. Only reason I am with them is because of my discount I get with them. Contract is up in 1 week (thanks God!) and I rather pay full price with another carrier. Shady reception, tons of dropped calls..One day you can have 5 bars at a location and next day zero reception / low reception at same exact location. Constant network is busy / try again later error messages, Nextel is horrible and I will die a happy man once they go out of business. Trust me, Nextel realizes they suck and the only reason Nextel exists is because somehow it became cool by this ghey hip hop generation to use the walkie-talkie feature.

Sprint

Since Sprint upgraded the tower near Cy Fair College around February of 2007 service has been great. Also, speeds with the data card are awesome.

AT&T

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.

AT&T

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.

AT&T

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

AT&T

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.

AT&T

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.

Sprint

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.

Verizon

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

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.

AT&T

There is no reception inside the buildings and poor outside

Virgin Mobile

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.

T-Mobile

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.

AT&T

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..

Nextel

I had Sprint initially and I couldn't use my phone inside my home. I work at a hospital and I always have "No Signal" on my display. I know it's not the hospital because other c-workers and doctors use thier phones in the halls and even elevators and get reception. So I changed to Nextel because my brother had it. Well, same thing. Soon after, they merged with Sprint and it got worse. They told me I needed to buy a more expensive phone to get better reception. What kinda crock is that??

Verizon

Overall I believe Verizon has the best network especially at the University of Houston0-main. You know the satellite, underground dining, where most of my friends have no signal (yes ironic name) but I at most 2 bars, which is better than their 0bars. Even in classrooms like the fleming building or the Science Engineering and Research classrooms I get signal. And last but not least, the MD Anderson Library. I get signal in the computer lab. It does at times go in and out, but hey I am getting signal and not T-Mobile or cingular. or Sprint ha ha poor sprint. Not sure about cricket though. I just wish verizon's plans werent so expensive, but hey for signal pretty much anywhere is a good trade off. You get what you pay for.

T-Mobile

cannot get reception in parts of the library and when I do its really weak

Sprint

Ive never had a dropeed call with Sprint in this area, and I have been living here for about a year now. Shame they dont have cool phones like cingular, but I believe Sprint is the best for the houston area !

Sprint

Sprint has more dropped calls in major Metro areas like Houston. All of the Sprint phones I have had have poor reception and can not hold a call in my home. As soon as my contract is up BYE, BYE, SPRINT!

Sprint

Horrible Reception in Townhome (likely interference from steel structure or something like that). Sprint service seems very patchy to me in Houston. Especially in Spring, TX (North of Houston). The medical center gets good reception, of course. I've been with them too long and am going to try Cingular or Verizon.

Verizon

I've had perfect reception in the Bellaire / Meyerland area for years. Verizon unquestionably has the best reception in Houston. I've been with Verizon for over 8 years now and have never had any major problems, other than the occasional billing quibble which was ultimately my fault. I've tried Cingular and Sprint through my job (they give all employees a cell). Sprint dropped ~10% of my calls in Houston when driving around, especially in the Downtown area. Cingular dropped ~15% of my calls, and had horrible reception from my Meyerland home. If you want great reception in Houston, I recommend Verizon.

AT&T

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.

AT&T

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

Sprint

I've been with Sprint for 8 years and I'm appalled at how much the service - both reception and customer - has deteriorated. I travel on business across the U. S. and my phone keeps dropping calls. It doesn't matter which state I'm in. I went into the store on Westheimer and Dunvale to purchase a new phone on the off-chance that the problem lies within my handset. It took the service rep guy 45 minutes to program my new phone, and when he was finished, he had programed the wrong phone line onto my phone. That's an honest mistake, and easily corrected, right? Wrong! It took him 4 hours to find out how to fix the problem and he had to call the *2 customer line for assistance. Then the manager tells him not to do what the *2 customer rep told him to do because that would mess up store inventory. The manager then says he'll fix it. This is after 4 hours! of sitting right next to the poor guy and watching him struggle to reprogram the phone, and watching me wait. When I told the manager I thought it was ridiculous that it took him 4 hours to step in and help, that this was the last straw ontop of months of horrible service, and that Sprint was about to lose my business. He said "I don't care". People, that about sums up Sprint right now - They don't care!

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