(2.6 stars)
Sprint
(0 stars) |
Port Washington Rd. | Capitol,
Milwaukee, WI 53212 |
I did not get any reception this evening and I usually have good reception..sometimes my calls drop but not often..but I'm upset because it's friday and I can't make plans..uh
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Sprint
(1 star) |
52nd and Capitol,
Milwaukee, WI 53216 |
There are problems with coverage inside the home because Sprint's spectrum of choice does NOT penetrate buildings well. Not that any current spec does, but there are homes that still have lead in them. This may interfere with the cell signal penetrating the walls of your home. If that is the case, consider acquiring a cell signal repeater.
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AT&T
(4 stars) |
Hampton | Port Washington Rd.,
Milwaukee, WI 53217 |
Service is average to good, occasionally excellent. Not sure it's worth the risk to change to and learn the nuances of a new carrier. They all have good and bad points.
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AT&T
(1 star) |
Logan Ave. | Kk,
Milwaukee, WI 53207 |
reception is so spotty. I have never experienced so much inconsistency with cell reception. Very unhappy with AT&T and apple. AT&T has the deepest pockets of all the cell companies and you would think they would have solid coverage in a city.
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Cricket
(0 stars) |
4080 W Rivers Edge Cr. Condo's | HWY 57 (Green Bay Rd.And Schroeder DR,
Milwaukee, WI 53209 |
They say the Motorola V465 is there best seller. First, they only have 4-5 phones until the ones with the keyboards some other fancy deal and a black berry on the way. I have used Motorola phones from net 10 that BLOW the VE465 away I swapped it for the one made by QUALCOMM-Average at best-because it actually has push buttons not that rubber slab looslyin tact to operate functionwit less moving part-creating slippage errors and other function keys are dual purposed-opposity functions-its like having a combo on -emergency off button to operate the space shutle.
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Nextel
(5 stars) |
Bay View,
Milwaukee, WI 53207 |
Works awesome! Full coverage at my house, even in my basement. Stable calls and great sound quality. Overall, the best for the Metro area.
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AT&T
(0 stars) |
MKE Airport,
Milwaukee, WI 53207 |
Absolutely terrible AT&T service in and around the Milwaukee area. Bad with Iphone3gs, worse with IP4.
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US Cellular
(0 stars) |
Oklahoma | Illinois,
Milwaukee, WI 53207 |
I rarely ever had problems with US Cellular until moving to the south side. Now it's common to have bad reception, dropped calls, missed calls where the phone doesn't even ring, late voicemails or text messages, dying battery, etc. But no problems when I'm out of bay view. Is it just this part of town or what? Being close to the airport or the lake?
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Verizon
(4 stars) |
Wabeno To Rhinelander,
Milwaukee, WI 53225 |
North of wabeno to rhinelander my Verizon phone works fine, South of Wabeno to Oshkosh my Verizon phone requires me to re-enter every phone number I dial before it will dial through and connect a call. Once I get to Fond Du Lac and South all the way back to Milwaukee it works fine again. This has been with both contract and prepaid Verizon Service. I have used Motorola Android, Blackberry Pearl Flip, Chocolate 2, 3 and touch all with same issue in these areas regarding the phone dialing. Funny thing is that with all of these Smart phones internet and texts are completely unaffected almost anywhere I have gone in this state. The only place I did not have service is a 10 mile dead spot between Black River Falls and Tomah. Verizon has the best coverage in WI, all-be-it I have to re-enter all numbers when passing through certain areas of the state, but all calls have always gone through with very little droppage. I am now Using Straight Talk Prepaid on a $45 unlimited plan for 30 days, which uses the Verizon Network, but coverage is very spotty, lots of dead spots, dropped calls, etc. I have the $100 Samsung with the slide out QWERTY keyboard, bought 10 days ago (today is 6-22-2010) at Rhinelander Walmart. (I now Reside In Crandon as of May 22, 2010 zip 54520). will be retuening Strait Talk phone in a couple of days and going back to Verizon PrePaid because of the better coverage area, despite the inconvience of often having to re-enter the phone number after the initial dial when passing through many areas here. Calls always went through, very few were dropped. I believe the Strait Talk limitation is due to the phones and not the Verizon network. I know that for Verizon Customers whether prepaid or contract; service will get better in this area when they complete their acquisition and conversion of Alltel wireless. I have been a Verizon customer for 8.5 years and the acquisition of Alltel will be totally complete by fall 2011 as I was told that the changeover would take three years to complete in its entirety. On the upside, I have Charter Cable services with 25mbps downstream i-net, in state calling on home phone, and two high def cable boxes with every kids channel imagined, line maintence package and an unlisted phone number for $160 per month with taxes and fees. I was paying three times that for much lesser service with Time Warner in Milwaukee and four times that for the three months I used lesser services with AT&T U-Verse. I will go back to contract services with Verizon once the Alltel acquisition i9s complete, until then I will use Verizon Prepaid.
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Sprint
(1 star) |
Oakland Ave. | Glendale Ave.,
Milwaukee, WI 53211 |
Sprint has good reception in most of milwaukee, except at my house. I am about 2 blocks from the lake, and I often will not get any bars at home. Wanting to switch, but not sure that anyone is going to have better service near the lake.
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AT&T
(2 stars) |
Maryland Ave. | Olive St,,
Milwaukee, WI 53211 |
Some times five. Calls dropped late evening. My phone tells me to wait while it finds customer? Called AT&T. Could not tell me why my phone not listed as a 3G or even Edge. Whish Apple would choose another carrier.
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US Cellular
(5 stars) |
Wauwatosa,
Milwaukee, WI 53213 |
I've never once dropped a call, in my own home, in basements, in bars, or anywhere else my friends phones / providers have dropped calls. Even when I take camping trips in the middle of nowhere I get calls (good thing for US Cellular, bad thing for my peaceful camping trip!). The only drawback to the service is the fact that its a little more pricey than most plans. Emphasis on the word little, however.
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Sprint
(0 stars) |
Water,
Milwaukee, WI 53202 |
No reception. Could not use my phone on 10 / 4 / 2009 and could not use my wireless 3G air card. No reception at all. Had to physically get in my car and drive 5 miles away from downtown central before either would work.
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Sprint
(4 stars) |
Van Buren | Kilbourn,
Milwaukee, WI 53202 |
I've been happy with my Sprint reception and prices. Their customer service is absolutely terrible though, but I just push through that in order to have a plan that is about 2 / 3 the price of any other carrier. I don't know about the outskirts of Milwaukee or the surrounding areas much, but downtown I almost never lose reception
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Sprint
(4 stars) |
Hwy. 100 and Bluemound,
Milwaukee, WI 53226 |
I use my phone all over the milwaukee / waukesha area and the only times I've had reception problems are in 2 of my friends houses where nobody gets reception. But even there I usually get 2 bars.
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AT&T
(1 star) |
Downer Ave. | Locust St.,
Milwaukee, WI 53211 |
One to two bars consistently outside of my home. Cannot use inside unless at 2nd floor window.
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T-Mobile
(4 stars) |
76th | Bradley,
Milwaukee, WI 53224 |
Outside, great reception. Inside, nothing. Customer service is always great, and for two phones on a family plan, including internet, I always pay under $100 a month.
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T-Mobile
(4 stars) |
Capitol Dr. | Wilson Dr.,
Milwaukee, WI 53211 |
Always great reception here. In the house is a little worse, but it always works.
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T-Mobile
(4 stars) |
Center | Holton,
Milwaukee, WI 53212 |
Inside my house right in Riverwest is kinda spotty, inside the building at work up on the Northwest side is non-existant, but other than that I almost never find myself without enough reception to talk, text, and surf the net.
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Verizon
(5 stars) |
Hwy. 100 and Wisconsin Ave. | Hwy. 100 and Oklahoma,
Milwaukee, WI 53226 |
Been with Verizon forever, only carrier I've ever been with. Customer service is outstanding if I ever need it. I drive all over, never a dropped call or signal issue. Had 3 different phones and same results. Verizon ROCKS! My daughter had Sprint, waited on the line until she got one of the VP's offices to tell them what she thought, they were't very happy. Now she's a Verizon convert
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Nextel
(1 star) |
Hartford,
Milwaukee, WI 53201 |
In and out if you go in one of the UWM building or basement it goes to O
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AT&T
(1 star) |
Wauwatosa Rd. | 75th St.,
Milwaukee, WI 53223 |
When I try and make a call it takes a while for it to go through or drops it completely. I can hardly hear what people are saying and they can't hear what I'm saying. I should say that this usually happens when I'm in the apartment.
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US Cellular
(2 stars) |
Oakland Down the St.From Pick N' Save,
Milwaukee, WI 53211 |
Eh, good-ish. they promis good servce up north, I got one, and when I was lucky, maybe even TWO bars! When I was roaming, I got GREAT, EXCELENT, WONERFUL servace. Back at home, I have to re start my phone, or call someone to get a text. ugh... costemer servace was nice, had to call them too much though.
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AT&T
(0 stars) |
Jackson | Menomonee,
Milwaukee, WI 53202 |
I used to get reception on my razr---but only a bar or two. My fiance gets decent reception on his smartphone, and I can't get a single bar on my new one. Going back to the store tomorrow.
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AT&T
(4 stars) |
North Ave.,
Milwaukee, WI 53212 |
Coverage has been quite good; very few dead spots unless I'm in a below-ground business or something similar.
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US Cellular
(1 star) |
87th | Lisbon,
Milwaukee, WI 53222 |
Horrible reception at home in the middle of Milwaukee! Number of bars constantly change. the only place I am guaranteed reception is on the second floor.
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AT&T
(1 star) |
Oakland | Lake Bluff,
Milwaukee, WI 53211 |
I can't make any calls inside my building. When I do get through, I can barely here a thing and it drops my call after a few seconds.
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Verizon
(1 star) |
Bluemound Rd. | 49th St.,
Milwaukee, WI 53208 |
Its common to get only 1 bar or no bars in my home. Can only use my phone on 1st or 2nd floor. The basement is impossible. Often the phone rings and when I go to pick it up the call is gone. The ironic part is that in every other city in which I travel my reception is good to excellent. I will have to be hard on Verizon though. In my view, they need to change their slogan. It's definitely not America's Most Reliable Network if you live in Milwaukee.
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AT&T
(2 stars) |
West Allis | Greenfield Ave.,
Milwaukee, WI 53214 |
Tired of trying to make call with AT&T and getting "circuits busy, try again later" this happens all the time to me and I'm in a big city. I've called numerous times to complain - after all my cell was purchased for emergency calls - no good if I can't even get the call out! AT&T was never like this in the past, I too started out with AT&T which inturn was Cingular and now back to AT&T. I can't get satisfaction with this group - looking elsewhere for a dependable service.
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T-Mobile
(1 star) |
107th N | Bradley,
Milwaukee, WI 53224 |
Sometimes I have to reboot my phone to get a signal in my apartment, all other times its at 1 bar. Having recently moved here I have learned that T-Mobile is generally bad all over Milwaukee.
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AT&T
(0 stars) |
Clement | Oklahoma,
Milwaukee, WI 53207 |
Occasionally I get one bar but usually not enough to make or receive a call. 3G picks up but switches quickly to edge. I had poor service in this area with US Cellular too, but this seems worse. Too bad, only way to get an iPhone.
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AT&T
(0 stars) |
Sherman Blvd. | Mill Rd.,
Milwaukee, WI 53209 |
absolutely no bars in my house. need to go to neighbor across street to get any signal. great! So much for replacing lland line
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US Cellular
(5 stars) |
49th and Washington Blvd.,
Milwaukee, WI 53208 |
I had always had AT&T with horrible service switched to uscellular I get great service even at our home in Little Sturgeon in Door County. Us cellular has truely wowed us with the service and custoemr service
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Nextel
(5 stars) |
8th | Morgan,
Milwaukee, WI 53221 |
Living in an area where Nextel was the worst, I was suprised when I moved to Milwaukee that wherever I went in town, I had perfect recption and not a dropped call. I still keep my Verizon line for when I go up north... but not bad at all.
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Verizon
(1 star) |
8th | Morgan,
Milwaukee, WI 53221 |
For being the best coverage in the nation, I was very dissapointed moving to Milwaukee where even outdoors on both my phones I only have one bar of voice coverage. I was so dissapointed I went and got Nextels, and now I have coverage all over town (never less that 3 bars)
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Sprint
(0 stars) |
Juneau / Van Buren,
Milwaukee, WI 53202 |
Is anyone else having problems with Sprint near the lower east side? every so often (monthly?) we get "signal faded, drop call" after about 40 seconds. SO FRUSTRATING! I have tried turning the phone off, taking the battery out, and visited the Sprint store many times to update our software. And it is not our apartment because it works except for these times. It is so frustating. If you are having problems or know of the problem, please let me know!
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T-Mobile
(1 star) |
Howell | Oklaholma,
Milwaukee, WI 53207 |
out and about either of my phones work pretty good. Anytime I am near tall building however service is aweful. This includes my home and work. Texting is as bad. Neither of the phones automatically resend text, so it isn't like I can just walk away after hitting send. I have to wait till I get signal and then hope it works. I do a lot of bulk texting and if it doesn't go out to all recipients then I have to resend and usually barrage the first couple on the list with repeat copies. I have a "free roaming" plan with tmobile, but because I am supposed to have service near my home they will not allow my phone to roam. This is a joke and my biggest complait with tmobile. The roaming works fine in areas where their maps don't say I whould be fine. I started with the sidekick for the features. I hated the coverage and was going to switch services. I then learned about the hotspot at home availability and purchased the Samsung t409. the service of the Samsung is better. The hotspot feature is a GREAT idea (it allows you to log into a wifi instead of a cell tower to make calls) and that is far from perfected. It sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. The t409 is featureless so I am currently back to the sidekick and contemplating canceling my subscription with tmobil. For the record, Sprint was also aweful for me but did allow me to force roaming and use the (us celular I think) network but I didn't get all my messages and voicemails when roaming. I am now thinking of going to us celular although their plans are much more expensive than the T-Mobile plans... I guess you get what you pay for!
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US Cellular
(5 stars) |
Teautonia | Capital,
Milwaukee, WI 53206 |
US CEllular is the best, especially in the Milwaukee area. I have no problems with calls ever dropping and I have been a customer since 1996. I also took a trip to NC and my phone was not roaming and the signal was still perfect.
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Verizon
(4 stars) |
78th St. | Lincoln Ave.,
Milwaukee, WI 53219 |
I use Verizon and have no problems anywhere I've tried to use it - i.e. it also roams really well. I believe that what makes the biggest difference is truly the phone. I have had service with the original PrimeCo, Nextel, Alltel up north, and now Verizon and every time I did my homework and got a quality Motorola phone I have been able to make calls on as little as 1 bar with no noticeable loss of quality. I can be in a basement on the UWM campus and my colleagues will be standing on top of their desks to try and get a signal with T-Mobile or Sprint and I calmly pull out my phone at 1 bar with Verizon and sit to make a call no problem. When I used an LG model with Alltel I had the worst time trying to complete any calls but my coworker had no problems with his Motorola on the same network- I definitely would have switched back to my loyal brand if I hadn't moved down to Milwaukee. Not all phones are created equal (even Motorola) so do your homework and look at user reviews before you buy.
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Sprint
(5 stars) |
Wauwatosa Ave. | North Ave.,
Milwaukee, WI 53213 |
My only complaint, is if you drive any where North of Sheboygan, you can't even roam. No coverage off the freeway in the Chenequa / Waukesha County Area, no Coverage in Door County... Sprint, dont' be silly, give the customers with $$ coverage where they need it when they go on vacation
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Verizon
(1 star) |
Stickney Ave. | North Ave.,
Milwaukee, WI 53213 |
I've only been with Verizon for a week and I will be cancelling. I have only had full bars at the WatertownPlank Swan Blvd.Intersection. Once I get onto Swan and drive for a quarter mile, my calls drop I'm down to 0-1 bar. Once I'm inside my house, I can hear the call, but the person on the other end tells me that I cut in and out, and the call eventually dropps.
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Sprint
(5 stars) |
State Fair | 76th and Greenfield,
Milwaukee, WI 53214 |
Everyone complains about sprint, but I travel the state and don't have a problem. Even up toward green bay, and adams county, I may go into roaming but it's like 5 bars. I have to say of all the carriers I've had Sprint is by far the best reception!
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Verizon
(1 star) |
60th and Good Hope Rd.,
Milwaukee, WI 53223 |
In my office I had full bars and never had a drop out with Cellular One. With my Verizon, I usually have 0 to 1 bar and have to step outside if I want to complete a call. Usless for me.
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T-Mobile
(2 stars) |
Humboldt | Center,
Milwaukee, WI 53212 |
used to get good reception. since november 1, 2007 reception has gone to poor. 0 to 1 bar inisde, slightly better outside. tried multiple phones without any luck. don't go T-Mobile if you do not have a land line as a back up.
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Verizon
(1 star) |
Milwaukee | Commerce / Humboldt,
Milwaukee, WI 53212 |
I travel throughout the country and owned them since Air Touch days. Recently moved from Waukesha to downtown (East Side) area. I have to say that Verizon has serious issues with service from the east side all the way to the lake. I've complained at stores and at corporate... no suggestions other than sign another 2 year contract and talking about "new every 2." I requested an area survey 4 times and each time they can't find my request in my notes. Friends with Verizon phones drop like crazy too when in the area. Now my work cell "cingular" has no problems indoors or outdoors on the east side. Sad... but I now plan to leave the "network that works for you."
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T-Mobile
(4 stars) |
Wauwatosa,
Milwaukee, WI 53213 |
I used to have Cingular. I was totally in love with their coverage. I never had a dropped call or any problems with volume of the call or static. But then when AT&T and Cingular merged my coverage started to suck, so I canceld my contract. Right now I use a T-Mobile phone and the coverage seems to be pretty decent, I hardly ever have dropped calls, unless I'm out in Mem Falls. And obviously it doesn't work up north, seeing as how US Cellular is the only phone company around those parts. But I'm considering switching to Sprint, I've heard good things and the suppossedly ahve the fastest intel.
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US Cellular
(5 stars) |
76th | Lincoln,
Milwaukee, WI 53219 |
Can't complain about reception here. Haven't had any problems with reception around Milwaukee area in general. I wish they would roll their minutes, then they'd be ideal.
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AT&T
(1 star) |
Superior | Russell,
Milwaukee, WI 53207 |
This is a review of my girlfriend's service, actually. She lives right on the lake near South Shore Yacht club, just south of Russell on Superior. She gets very little reception in her apartment. Calls frequently come in but get dropped within a minute or two. Outside, reception is slightly better but still pretty awful. Friends with ATT report about the same difficulty, with between 0 and 2 bars in and around her apartment.
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Verizon
(4 stars) |
Howell Ave. | Lincoln Ave.,
Milwaukee, WI 53207 |
I live about two blocks southwest of Howell and Lincoln in Bay View. I get generally very good reception outside as I walk up and down the streets of Bay View, which I do very frequently. In my home, though, I only get average reception with a fair number of dropouts and dropped calls. Dropped calls aren't terribly common, though. I'd call it OK inside, very good outside. The web works well enough inside and outside. At work about a mile from I45 off Main St. in Menomonee Falls, I get no reception inside and only decent reception outside. The web is sketchy or unavailable.
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AT&T
(1 star) |
S 92nd | Orchard,
Milwaukee, WI 53214 |
att used to work good here. ported my number to them cause Cingular sucked so bad. cingualr then bought AT&T and reception went crap. AT&T bought Cingular and reception is still crap. AT&T couldn' care less. SEND US OUR MONEY. these contracts got to GO!aren't there laws against coluding like these companies are doing?
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