Verizon
(5 stars) |
Tremont,
Boston, MA 02120 |
awesome
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AT&T
(4 stars) |
Massachusetts Ave. | Albany St.,
Cambridge, MA 02139 |
The reception is good on MIT campus and in my dorm on Albany St. Haven't had any dropped calls. I use wifi usually and can't comment on data.
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AT&T
(5 stars) |
Huntington Av | Hemenway Av,
Boston, MA 02115 |
amazing
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AT&T
(1 star) |
305 Memorial Dr.,
Cambridge, MA 02139 |
Maseeh Hall on the MIT campus has extremely poor AT&T cell phone reception inside the dorm. I called AT&T customer service today and they basically said that they had good signals in the area and they blamed the "Maseeh architecture" for the poor indoor reception. After having been a AT&T customer for the last 30 or so years, I'm switching to Verizon. Verizon customers have much better reception inside Maseeh.
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T-Mobile
(1 star) |
Ball Square,
Somerville, MA 02144 |
Reception varies between bad and none, even outside on the Broadway sidewalk. I thought AT&T was bad for dropped calls, but they at least consistently delivered 3G. I am just trying switching to T-Mobile, and if they don't get their act together I'm cancelling; this is unacceptable.
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Verizon
(1 star) |
South Point Channel | Summer St.,
Boston, MA 02110 |
I have bars and I have 3G showing and yet my apps fail, my internet sits and spins, and calls are fuzzy or drop every 20-30 seconds. I have horrible reception here in South Boston but also on the commuter train, in Back Bay and in the Financial District. I actually passed my destination because my phone's GPS said I was still 4 blocks away and it even had me indicated 3 streets over from where I was. The cell service in this city is horrific let alone trying to use data. It just plain doesn't work.
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Sprint
(1 star) |
Comm Ave. | Harvard Ave.,
Allston, MA 02134 |
had good reception in my apartment for 9 years. now the sound cuts out all the time. I can only hear every 4th word of the caller and vice versa. I contacted Sprint and they claimed they are upgrading to 4G in my area.
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AT&T
(0 stars) |
Pleasant St. | Memorial Dr.,
Cambridge, MA 02139 |
I have no data at all in my building. I am paying $100 per month. ATT is the biggest rip off going. Can"t wait to switch!
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T-Mobile
(1 star) |
Longwood Area,
Boston, MA 02215 |
No service at all whatsoever if you are going in the basement or Lower Level floors in any of the hospitals. It is the worst! Even in higher level floors, service is very crappy. And the only reason I switched is because someone was paying my phone bill! I am so disappointed with T-Mobile!
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T-Mobile
(1 star) |
Pearl St. | Chestnut St.,
Cambridge, MA 02139 |
Even though t-mobile's coverage map shows us with great reception, it ain't so. We just switched from Verizon to T-Mobile for their prepaid service, and we have had really bad voice reception (barely intelligible), texts are not coming through, and forget the data. Stinks.
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Verizon
(4 stars) |
Pearl St. | Chestnut St.,
Cambridge, MA 02139 |
Always - not always perfectly - could get reception here with Verizon. Dumb phone.
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Verizon
(4 stars) |
Mass Ave.T Station,
Boston, MA 02118 |
Data is slow to load however I never have any dropped calls.
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AT&T
(1 star) |
711 Atlantic, South Station | East / Beach St.,
Boston, MA 02111 |
Very poor reception. I'm thinking of leaving ATT for Straight Talk Wireless. Don't know if signals will be any better with ST and new phone, but couldn't possibly be any worse. AT&T definitely not worth their data / rate charge for this service.
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AT&T
(1 star) |
Columbus and Wellington | Columbus and Wellington,
Boston, MA 02118 |
Reception OK on Street, absent indoors; don't have twenty words unless I have to repeat or filibuster this
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Verizon
(1 star) |
Brandywyne Dr. | Bennington,
Boston, MA 02128 |
Cant download files for a game I want. Texts and calls are affected.
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T-Mobile
(1 star) |
Porter St. | Highland Ave.,
Somerville, MA 02143 |
Reception terrible in last two weeks: 0 to 1 bar. Cell phones turn off due to lack of connection. People in Medford shop say that T-Mobile is fixing towers but no one knows when service will improve. No help from phone center when we could call them. Awful.
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AT&T
(2 stars) |
Commonwealth Ave. | Fairfield St.,
Boston, MA 02110 |
Trying to improve AT&T cell coverage in 1st and basement floors of brownstone.trying Wilson omni directional antenna..may try directional
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AT&T
(1 star) |
Fenway Park | Boylston and Jersey,
Boston, MA 02215 |
Lots of dropped calls! Phone cal that don't go through or the other side can't hear me. Poor quality of connection.
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AT&T
(1 star) |
Massachusetts Ave. | Tremont,
Boston, MA 02118 |
How do I say this plainly, HORRIFIC. If I can see the Prudential Tower from my window, I should not have an issue getting a signal. Dropped calls, missed voicemails and messages (IMPORTANT), I cannot wait to dump this carrier as fast as I can. I live in the South End, if I'm living next to 750,000 dollar homes and can walk to Newbury St. and live on 3rd floor, I should not PAY to have NO signal. as useful as a dixie cup with strings, only your hopeful your call gets throuh...
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Verizon
(1 star) |
101 Main ST.,
Cambridge, MA 02142 |
If you work in Kendall Square area in Cambridge near Longfellow Bridge or the Cambridge Mall, please do not get Verzion. Your cell phone will not work or have signals consistently. My cell phone says I am out of the country right now while I am in Cambridge Mass! Idiots at Verizon should really take look at their cell towers!
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T-Mobile
(4 stars) |
Coolidge Corner,
Brookline, MA 02446 |
I live in Boston, as long as you stay in a major city T-Mobile is fine. In the Cape, New Hampshire or even major Boston suburbs calls are dropped often and whole areas (large) have no reception or data where Verizon or AT&T have 3-4 bars. On the plus side T-Mobile built some sort signal boost into the subways and I get full service where other people cant get 1 bar
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Verizon
(1 star) |
Solider Field Rd. | Western Ave.,
Allston, MA 02134 |
Extremely spotty coverage, might have full signal one minute with 3G then one bar maybe, would expect more from Verizon with boston being a large metro area
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Verizon
(1 star) |
Swan Street,Tappan Street, Bucknam Street,Norwood,
Everett, MA 02149 |
After 610 years with Verizon I am looking for a new carrier with better reception. Verizon's engineers went through the entire neaghborhood at my request. They called me back and said they got bad reception here in Everett (3 miles out of Boston). Sais there was nothing they could do. I encourage everyone to sign up for new service with their most exoensuve ohine and return it the next day due to lousy service. A few thousand returns would say something to them.
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AT&T
(1 star) |
14 Trowbridge St. | Trowbridge Street, Massachusetts Ave.,
Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Most of the time, I get very very poor reception and must change to my home phone.
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AT&T
(1 star) |
Copley Sq. | Berkeley St.,
Boston, MA 02116 |
I switched from T-Mobile to AT&T in Nov. 2010 to get the iPhone 4. Calls were ok, not much better than T-mobile. Data was not very consistant. However I have noticed that for the past 6 months or so (1H of 2012) the data availability is terrible. The number of bars mean nothing! 4-5 bars means MAYBE you'll have data. Many times it just hangs, not downloading any pages despite '3G' and 4-5 bars showing up. On 1-2 bars forget it. It gets worse at rush hour. Try using the data at 5-6pm. You get 7-10 mins max then cuts you off. Listening to streaming music or web surfing just stops even when you close and open back up. Frustrating! I think iPhone 5 will be with Verizon.
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AT&T
(1 star) |
Spring Hill,
Somerville, MA 02143 |
I didn't check cell reception when picking a new apt here, figuring that in a densely populated area in 2012, decent ATT coverage for a dumb phone wouldn't be an issue. In fact, it's terrible: 0-1 bars most of the time and often no service at all. Roommate's Verizon phone works fine.
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Sprint
(1 star) |
Mass. Ave. | Cogswell Ave.,
Cambridge, MA 02140 |
Just replaced an old model with this one due to numerous dropped calls. Was hoping the reception would improve w the new phone but it's terrible. I have to stand in one corner of the apartment to talk and even then, just one bar and some drops. i've been with Spring 10 years and am otherwise happy, but I don't have a landline so good cellie reception at home is critical. it's pretty darn aggravating.
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AT&T
(1 star) |
Mass Ave. | Huntington Ave.,
Boston, MA 02115 |
I live here. When my cell phone rings, I answer with "Hi, I'll call you back." Then I hang up and call on a land line. There is no point in using my ATT / iPhone in this neighborhood. I changed to ATT to get an iPhone. This was a mistake - big time. Is it the phone or the carrier? Probably both. I locked myself into a cell phone contract, but I still need a mobile phone! Now I'm trying to convince my neighbors to help buy a repeater to boost reception... really? We need to spend $300 to get a decent signal? Shame on ATT for taking our money without providing decent service to the middle of Boston.
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AT&T
(4 stars) |
Hya | Steamship To Nantucket,
Allston, MA 02134 |
Must have great towers out here, or the boat has cell site on board!
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AT&T
(0 stars) |
Greenwich Pk. | Columbus Ave.,
Boston, MA 02118 |
I've noticed a steady decline of my coverage for some time now from my home in the South End and also in the South Shore area down to Kingston and Plymouth. My old Chocolate phone and iPhone 3G got decent reception in my home. Even my iPhone4 got reception when I first used it. I could opt to get a MicroCell from AT&T, but that's just a band-aid fix and AT&T will then be piggybacking off my Internet bandwidth... Just fix the problems in the Boston area. It's simple... Or it should be with all the account fees they collect every month.
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T-Mobile
(1 star) |
Pinckney | Anderson,
Boston, MA 02114 |
I am on the Top Floor overlooking the Charles River with clear line of site to Cambridge and have had poor to no service for years with Tmobile. They always claim the next tower, 3g or 4g will fix the problem but I have finally given up and will switch from T-Mobile after 10+ years next month. The reps have given many explinations but the one I have heard multiple times that I believe is: Beacon Hill and the area between Chestnut, and Cambridge streets and Charles joy streets are near the edge of 2 towers and your phone is constantly switching back and forth and dropping calls and switching from edge-3G-4G causing data issues. Who knows... .
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AT&T
(0 stars) |
D St. | W Fifth St.,
Boston, MA 02127 |
Emergency service only on the street and in my apartment. What a joke - checking the AT&T map it should be the 'best'. I'm going to have to install a land line for all the calls all I can't make. Going to cancel the service this week. ANy suggestions for Southie?
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Sprint
(0 stars) |
Exeter | Winthrop,
Medford, MA 02155 |
Just moved here to Medford and I find that I have either poor or no reception with both my iPhone and hotspot devices.
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AT&T
(1 star) |
Beacon Hill,
Boston, MA 02108 |
I have been with AT&T for the past 4.5 years (since 2008)and at first I had regular reception and only at times in certain locations would I have dropped calls. Soon after and more specially now, I can't use my phone anywhere! I do have some bars, but I get dropped calls constantly. Usually every call I make is dropped at least once. If and when I am able to make the call, quite frequently (about 70% of the time) the other person is not able to understand anything I say. This even happens when I call AT&T customer service to report the issue, oh and customer service is not 24 hours, if the network is bad, you just have to live with it. I would never recommend AT&T to anyone in New England, more specifically Boston -because I dont go out of Boston that often-. I think as soon as I hear the new Iphone is coming out, I will terminate my contract and purchase it in any other carrier. Anything is better than AT&T ANYTHING, unless you dont want to be able to use your phone but still pay for it.
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AT&T
(1 star) |
Boylston St. | Clarendon,
Boston, MA 02116 |
I am not able to use my phone at all in my office... There is usually 2 or 3 bars but no service. Then it will start to look for a signal. I actually get excited when I see the "E" network bc then I can use it. Why hasnt the FCC come down harder on these companys with all the hard push they give with great service when in fact they are horrible and unreliable...
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T-Mobile
(2 stars) |
Harvard St. | Inman St.,
Cambridge, MA 02139 |
Reception was great until a year and half ago when I switched to a smart phone. Not sure if service quality sucks or if it's the phone. Calls are dropped often both indoors and outdoors. I can watch it go from all bars to x and back again in either setting although more often at home. This is very aggravating when I have an important call. I can only hope it doesn't happen during an emergency call. My brother has an iphone and can receive calls in basements, whereas I can barely use mine in my apartment. I might make the switch when my contract is up this summer. And sometimes my conversation will cut out and the phone picks up someone else's conversation.
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Sprint
(1 star) |
Dorchester,
Boston, MA 02125 |
Sprint is the worst. Do not pay $80 a month for never getting to use he internet or any apps. The customer service over the phone and at stores suck. I will urge everyone who is thinking about it away form it. I'd rather pay the early termination fee.
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AT&T
(2 stars) |
Emmanuel College,
Boston, MA 02115 |
Voice reception is average, but the data network is so slow as to be useless. Text-based pages won't load, etc.
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AT&T
(1 star) |
Downtown Crossing,
Boston, MA 02110 |
Most accurate comment here was "like having no phone at all" I can't make calls, download emails, play games or anything. it has gotten worse each month to the point where I can't use my phone at all in the city. I can use it at home, but it's basically an $80-a-month ipod at work.
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AT&T
(1 star) |
44 Cummington St.,
Boston, MA 02115 |
terrible reception- I have to go outside to make a call and even then I often lose the call repeatedly. AT&T is great, as long as you don't want to make or answer your phone inside... .
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AT&T
(2 stars) |
Main St.,
Charlestown, MA 02129 |
Dropped calls repeatidly, dead zones, can't make calls in half my condo. But it sounds like the others aern't any better either. Land line is the solution.
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AT&T
(0 stars) |
Brookline St. | Allston St.,
Cambridge, MA 02139 |
AT&T service has always been bad since I got the iPhone. Now it's almost completely unusable. One bar and no ability to make outgoing calls the last two days, where at home in Cambridgeport or at work at Boston University. Time to move on. Never again will I be stuck with AT&T.
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AT&T
(1 star) |
Kendall Sq,
Cambridge, MA 02139 |
AT+T data sucks throughout most of Cambridge (Kendall / MIT). Pretty slow outside. Once I go into a building... forget about it.
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Sprint
(0 stars) |
Goddard Avenue, Lee St.,
Brookline, MA 02446 |
Always lose cellphone signal when driving between the back of Jamaica Pond down Goddard Ave. by Larz Anderson Park and down Newton / Grove St. toward Putterham Circle.
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Verizon
(2 stars) |
Summer St.,
Boston, MA 02110 |
If there is a cloud in the sky the phone service is shakey. The real rip off is the wireless hotspot and internet. They worked great for the first few weeks. After Verizon got the iphone they hardly work at all.
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Sprint
(1 star) |
Harvard | Alton Place,
Brookline, MA 02446 |
Poor reception in my apartment in Coolidge Corner. Need to go out to the balcony to guarantee reception and even there it drops occasionally.
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AT&T
(0 stars) |
Bainbridge St. | Floral Ave.,
Malden, MA 02148 |
I've had AT&T service (Cingular) for some time. The phone worked for a while then stopped (no bars, no calls out). This happened just after the company "upgraded" per their report. Since then I cannot make calls out from my house. AT&T has no resolution for this. They actually told me to drive down the street when I wanted to make a call. They told me that there are 5 cell towers in my area-----so why don't I get cell service? Oddly, I can receive calls.
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Verizon
(3 stars) |
East 8th St. | N St.,
Boston, MA 02127 |
I switched from a flip phone to the 4G LTE Thunderbolt by HTC the day it came out, and the call signal has gotten slightly better, but I still loose a call about once every few months in my apartment. After a trip to NYC (Manhattan) a few months ago and after experiencing the amazing 4G LTE reception in NYC, I have realized just how mediocre the 4G signal is in Boston, with the signal constantly fluctuating, where as in NY, I had full bars where ever I went. After commenting on this fact to a Verizon Wireless store manager, he said the Boston network most likely won't get any upgrades for a couple of years until they are finished launching 4G in all of their other planned markets.
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AT&T
(0 stars) |
Dorchester Ave. | Boston St.,
Boston, MA 02125 |
AT&T service was for the most part a mixed bag up until about June 2011. Now all of the sudden 95% (not exaggerating) of all calls get a dropped at least once, if not several times consecutively and the data coverage is absolute ****. It's also killing my battery making my smartphone's battery go from lasting roughly 2 days to now, a paltry 5 or 6 hours because the phone is constantly seeking and reconnecting to the piss-poor signal. I'm glad these bozos, who don't know their a****** from the elbow won't be taking over T-Mobile because I'm sure as hell jumping ship as soon as my contract is ending - maybe even sooner.
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T-Mobile
(1 star) |
Magoun Square | Broadway Near DPW,
Somerville, MA 02145 |
Extremely poor reception with too many dropped calls and many times just unable to make calls or receive calls. There have been many times I tried to call my wife standing right next to me just to test the reception near Dunkin Donuts in Magoun Sq and the calls do not go thru too many times. TMobile has said there is nothing they can do. This has also happened with our Samsung T619.
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