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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.
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.
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.
