Coverage Reviews for Columbus, OH 43228

Rating | Carrier | Zip Code

Sprint

Phone doesnot ring for incoming calls. Messages are sometimes never delivered to my phone. No Bars. Dropped calls. It never used to be that way. What is going on. Sprint just does not do it for me.

AT&T

Att is horrible! Horrible coverage and horrible phones have been with them for 5 months and am going on my 4th device because there is always some kind of issue. My husband going on his third in the same amount of time its rediculous! Calls dont come in they are always dropped and I would not suggest them to anyone!

T-Mobile

I'm using Solavei (a T-Mobile MVNO)and service here in town if fantastic. I get 4G all the time and I'll be dropping my Verizon phones shortly. Questions about Solavei, contact me. Just49bucks dot com

Sprint

Bars drop with the change of the wind, Calls don't come in or out, Texting sometimes don't work, 3G HA HA, an old 300bps modem would work better

T-Mobile

t mobile sucks ass virgin mobile is cheaper and unlimited everything not 20 xtra a month for internet

Sprint

Used to get spotty reception, but at least reception since I moved to Columbus in October 2010. Two days now after Hurricane Sandy, of which Columbus had little after-effects, I have zero reception in my home. Told closest tower having trouble... but Sprint has always been spotty. Now Sprint is sending AirAve free of charge to help. We will see, doubt it. If not for 2 year contract commitment, I would bow out for Verizon or T-Mobile. I might given that I spend about $131 / mo on one phone with unlimited data and calls. Tired of this!

AT&T

I recently moved to German Village and get horrible reception within a 2-3 block radius of my house. Sometimes it's fine, but more often than not my calls are full of static or are dropped completely. ATT customer service has been no help either. Contract is up this month, and will be changing providers.

AT&T

Downtown Columbus has the worst AT&T reception for smartphones. I can't believe people downtown get good reception and data coverage. My Verizon Blackberry gets perfect reception everywhere in Columbus; both inside and outside 270.

AT&T

I live in Hillard Village Condos, behind Sam's Club off of Hilliard Rome Rd and Renner Rd, and I get terrible cell phone reception with the iPhone4 on AT&T. I used to get 4-5 bars outside and 2-3 inside, and now with an upgrade to ios6, I get 2-4 bars outside and 0-2 inside. My call almost always drops now as soon as I walk from outside to inside my condo.

Verizon

Can make a call from home abou 30% of time. Never receive calls here. Calls that I do make and get through are dropped about 50% of time. Slightly better if I walk outside. Upper Arlington needs to get in the 21st century and allow a cell tower.

Verizon

Can make a call from home abou 30% of time. Never receive calls here. Calls that I do make and get through are dropped about 50% of time. Slightly better if I walk outside. Upper Arlington needs to get in the 21st century and allow a cell tower.

Sprint

Outdoor Voice and 4G reception is good. 3G turns to 1x at times. Indoors with Airave femtocell (supplied at no charge) voice reception and 3g are much better than without the Airave but calls still drop once or twice a month and occasionally the signal cuts out. No minutes used with Airave.

AT&T

I get horrible reception in my apartment, I can sit in one spot and go from one bar up to two in seconds... . So if I am in a middle of call I constantly have to keep moving so the call will not drop, but if I got outside... boom three bars, but then it can go down to one bar outside as well. I am going crazy!

Sprint

I'm so glad that someone else here mentioned that they get poor reception in the Britton Farms neighborhood with Sprint. I've been suffering with the same issue for years in this neighborhood. And, exactly as the other person posted, if you go just a 1 / 10 or 1 / 4 of a mile in any direction from the neighborhood, I get perfect Sprint reception --all bars. What is it about this neighborhood that prevents good reception? I should note that I also had the same problem with my previous Sprint phone and that at least 4 other people I know with various types of Sprint phones also have the same reception problem in this neighborhood so it's not a phone-specific issue. Here are a few of the physical features of our neighborhood: it was generally developed in the mid-to-late 1990's, it has a relatively high density of trees and there are probably around 300 homes in the neighborhood, the power lines are underground and the land is quite flat (it was farmland). One other item to note is that many of the homes are of stucco construction. I wonder if the metal mesh used as a base for the stucco to adhere to acts as sort of a faraday cage preventing signals from getting through? However, I don't know if that argument would hold any water since I don't only get poor reception inside my house but also outside and away from my house. If anyone has any insights or information as to why there is a coverage hole for this neighborhood (or similar coverage holes), please let us know. I should also note that I have been given a Sprint Airave to use in and around my house. Look it up; it's basically a celluar bridge that connects through the internet. There are a couple of bugs with it (sometimes multiple instances of texts getting sent for example) or the box needing to be reset / rebooted every couple weeks to maintain best performance. But, overall it's a very good solution for getting the reception we deserve / pay for.

T-Mobile

I have had T-Mobile for 3 years and had 4 different phones and have never had a single problem with reception or texting and I have 3 lines of service with execellent customer service and free upgrades every year my bill is never over 100.00 dollars

Cricket

Barely get phone calls. Always recieving random voicemails and receiving multiple (8+) delayed texts at once. The service works best near campus, but it really sucks because I don't live there. And even there it's unpredictable as to when it will choose to work and when I'm supposed to dial *288 because I can't call out for hours.

Sprint

No Sprint reception in hilliard?!?! I get 1 bar in hilliard, but none near spindler and renner and Rome hilliard

Verizon

Cell reception in this part of Upper Arlington is absolutely awful. I can't call out or text from my own home most of the time. If I am lucky enough to get one bar the call will quickly drop. Nobody seems to know if the real problem is the cell carriers or the city of UA not being able / willing to allow more cell towers. It sucks living in this neighborhood as we all rely on technology so much now. If anyone has found a solution to the problem please share it for the benefit of all.

Verizon

Get 0 to 1 inside the house. Sometimes cant even get a text out. If connected turn your head and it drops the call. Get 1 to 2 outside. When complained Verizon sent truck packed with comm. gear out - when I wasnt here - and said they got 2 bars in street in front of house and thats all that was required. Customer service only cares about the sale and nothing threafter. Cannot recommend them in the east UA area

Sprint

I just moved here a week ago from the Detroit area where I never had reception problems. Now I'm lucky if I get 1 bar. When on a call they fade in and out and sometimes drop the call. I went to the Polaris Sprint store today and was told my phone wasn't set up to search for Sprint service, he showed me that he changed a setting on my phone, then showed me that all 5 bars showed. He said to shut the phone off and turn it back on when I got home. Ha, no bars!

T-Mobile

Most of the day on the second story of the house, I get no service. I get 1 bar every few hours though. Just moved here and I'm ready to cancel my service.

AT&T

I can not get reception in my office building (Verizon users can) and have had trouble losing calls but if I walk a few feet usually get bars back. I have had trouble getting cell phone reception around OSU campus and Upper Arlington area.

Sprint

Generally good reception but they are forever messing up the bill and over charging. I am in the office almost monthly because of Blackberry outages or overbilling that has to be corrected. My music hasnt worked on my blackberry since I got it inspite of my buying mass music from the Sprint store. Just a rip off.

Sprint

I've been a Sprint customer for almost 10 years, and I've about had it. Coverage is spotty at best. Walk 10 feet and you lose 2-3 bars, and it's totally random. I've driven cross country using this phone as well, and it was amazing how awful the coverage was, even around Daytona Beach Florida, home of Sprint Cup NASCAR! I'm done with Sprint, Verizon here I come.

Verizon

I can hold a call only in one spot in my own house. Turn or move and it's gone. It's a problem with the whole neighborhood. Other services don't seem to have that problem in the area.

Verizon

Switched from Sprint and AT&T. Verizon has a great network here. I would always get drop calls with Sprint and AT&T. The 3G service is very fast too.

Verizon

9 out of 10 calls will be dropped. My wife's phone does the same thing. Inside or outside of the house

Sprint

every now and then it gets a bit tinny, but I would chalk that up to the phone's hardware before the coverage. No drops, no unable to call, no missed calls, no mystery voice mails.

AT&T

I have had these phones for 2 months and the coverage was iffy at home at best. The last several of days people cant hear me. they say it sounds like somebody talking underwater. they can't make out a word. ATT says they show good coverage in the area and I see that there is a tower less than half a mile from my house. Even before this I have had more dropped calls in every three days than I had in 5 years with Verizon. I love everything about my Iphone but the phone. The dropped calls were enough to make you mad but not being able to make calls from home is all I can stand. The service folks at ATT telling me they cant help me and trying to send me to Apple when it happens on a non-apple phone as well is the last straw. Stay away from ATT if you live in my area... .Its not the coverage its the system.

AT&T

Reception outage before OSU / USC game on Sept 12,2009. According to ATT reps on site at a large sales booth that ATT had there, the cell system was overloaded. Some non-smartphones were able to make call. No service at all for 3-4 hours on the iPhone. I felt bad for ATT sales reps at their booth there near the St. John's arena. Pretty hard to sell a phone when your reception is out. By the way, they did offer me an ID lanyard or cheap backpack instead!

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