Coverage Reviews for Houston, TX

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Rating | Carrier | Location

AT&T

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

AT&T

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

Verizon

While i'm not sure if Verizon has the best plans... .I really can't complain about anything. The most impressive thing was that I never lost reception during Alison or ANY of our storms last year. I have reception in places I'm told others don't and have been way out in the back roads on my motorcycle and have gotten reception. I do have an occasional dropped call. While i'm thinking of looking at other companies, what I'm reading here may change that.

T-Mobile

I have to said that T-Mobile has an amazing network in the sugarland area. It is also amazing in major highways. Reception is spotty in North Houston. However, the network is horrible inside buildings. T-Mobile is horrible in city where there were many tall buildings such as New York City.Well, I guess other GSM carrier are the same when it comes to reception inside buildings and rural area. Overall, GSM coverage in the USA needs a lot of improvement. When I travel to Asia and Europe, I found their GSM network much better than the USA, because I get reception pretty much everywhere including subways, basement, buildings and even rural areas. Europe seems to have the best network.

AT&T

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.

T-Mobile

I use my cell phone mainly in the northwest Housotn area. I've had little or no trouble from The Woodlands to Pasadena, from Hempstead to Southwest Houston. I'm surprised to read the less than satisfactory experience T-Mobil users are having. I couldn't be happier however all I use it for is making and receiving calls. My boss has a more expensive model and seems to have problems quite often. I didn't think the phone make or model would make that much difference, but reading these and other revirews for T-Mobile, I am beginning to beleive the phone make and model can make a big difference.

Sprint

the call gets dropped after initial connection - every time. I have to go outside my house into back yard to get the service on again

Verizon

Expect spotty service and many missed calls in the Park at Armand Bayou Apartments and in Brookwood subdivision when you have digital Verizon.

AT&T

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

Sprint

Very spotty. Get horrible reception in my apt. on Hawthorne and Yupon, but a few blocks away and it's fine. My friends that have other services can get reception in my apt.

AT&T

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

Verizon

At this intersection during drive time in the evenings (5PM - 5:30PM) I frequently drop to analog channels and then on those calls frequently drop calls. Overall - Verizon in Houston is excellent!

T-Mobile

i dont know what could have possibly gone wrong with the other guy who has the same exact location as I do, but T-Mobile is awesome here... I dont know maybe their phone isnt working but I get great reception here and everywhere around here. I am very pleased to have tmobile

AT&T

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

Sprint

dropped every single call during course of a 3-4 hour drive from Dallas to Houston along I-45. Customer service is an oxymoron (they've "dead zones" between their ears!); the only segment of Sprint / Nextel that actually works is their billing department.

AT&T

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.

AT&T

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.

Verizon

Never had anything but excellent reception for 5 years, several different phones.

T-Mobile

I've never had any dropped calls at all, and I do a good bit of travelling in the Houston area. I usually get 4 / 4 bars outdoors, and at least 2 indoors, except for that occasional dead spot. Recently, I've seen signal strength improve in some previous dead spots, so they must be making progress. Great network!

AT&T

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.

AT&T

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.

AT&T

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.

T-Mobile

Have had to be forced to stay in my contract for 1 year and can not use my cell phone while at work! Sucks... .

Verizon

Verizon has great reception on the UH campus. I get service in every building including the library which is known as a dead zone as far as cell phones are concerned. In fact now that I think about I've never roamed with Verizon, the service is that good.

AT&T

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

AT&T

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.

AT&T

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.

AT&T

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.

Verizon

We get pretty good reception,with the exception of maybe 2 dropped calls in the last couple months(but that was right by Ellington Airforce base).Always have at least 4 bars.

Sprint

Consistent, excellent reception in this area for approximately 1 year.

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