Coverage Reviews for Austin, TX 78705

Rating | Carrier | Zip Code

AT&T

A few days ago my LTE service dropped completely. I have been in crucial driving navigation situations and no service. No internet on phone from downtown all the way up to Airport&52nd. Nada! WTF

AT&T

Towers need to be upgraded or so etching because they suck

T-Mobile

when I am inside my home I have no reception at all, I can't call any one or get call from my friend.

Verizon

Almost no reception anywhere in Hyde Park. The service is abysmal. Dropped Calls, spotty coverage, NO 3G, almost no internet, texts do not send. Worst coverage experience in Austin.

Sprint

Switched from AT&T to Sprint. Had dropped calls constantly on AT&T and have not had a dropped call yet with Sprint in 9 months. Their service is phenomenal. I have 3G between Austin and Houston the whole way, with at least 4 bars for most of it. I always was stuck on EDGE with AT&T outside of the city. And our bill is a lot cheaper.

AT&T

The reception is poor to no reception. All calls get dropped constantly. Thought ATT pride themselves on having good area coverage however that is not the case if you are around the triangle area. Austin is a big City this is not the countryside and it is almost imposible to make or receive a phone call if your carrier is ATT wireless around this area. Time to move to another carrier.

Verizon

Service in my apartment is spotty. Usually I can make complete calls, but calls drop much more often that I would like. The sound quality isn't great either. Overall, it is OK but likely there are better providers for this neighborhood.

AT&T

No, or very little reception in this area. Thinking the change from OK to poor coverage happened about the time of the 4G LTE roll-over.

AT&T

Due to another carriers tower on top of the building there is no ATT cell coverage in the Oak Park Apartments.

Sprint

I had just switched to an iPhone and now can hardly have a phone call that isn't cutoff. If you're going to sell an iPhone, freaking make sure the infrastructure is in place to support it. I should have stayed with the old phone that butt dialed people. At least it had excellent reception.

T-Mobile

I have near perfect reception everywhere I go. My friends with Sprint and my room mate with AT&T all have little or no signal for calls or data in my house, I have no issues whatsoever. no complaints at all, my data isnt as fast as I would like, but its faster then any of my friends who use other providers!

AT&T

i live near this intersection and typically am unable to use the phone in my house or out in my yard. calls 9 out of 10 times are dropped when I am able to get reception.

AT&T

I live on Tom Green St. between 33rd and 32nd streets, and no one that has AT&T is able to use their phone in my house. Even going outside on the patio doesn't help. The only reason we've been able to get by using iPhones is that we have a microcell, but it has its own problems (cutting out, long delay during calls). I bought a Verizon iPhone 4 when they cam out, but Verizon also has no service in this area. I even called them and they finally admitted that we're in a "known area" of poor service. My wife and I both had Sprint before getting iPhones and we had zero problems. We're considering switching back for Sprint iPhone 4Ses, but we're in contract with at&t.

Sprint

Never had any trouble with signal or dropped calls until my phone aged. ie. dropped it, threw it, ran over it, washed it, swam with it... Got a new one and excelent service. Wouldn't think of having anyone else for a provider. I travel quite a bit and go boating, and still got service when all my iphone buddies did not. :-D

T-Mobile

The reception in our home is very bad, dropping voice. We used to have AT&T before, I will be going back.

Sprint

Unable to receive texts from AT&T on the Sprint network after update from Sprint. Called Sprint service and Sprint said they had no means to test or diagnose the problem and attempted to blame their interoperability on AT&T although it was due to a Sprint update. They had no idea what was wrong and were unable to diagnose the problem. Completely incompetent. Canceled contract due to poor service and incompetence. Suggest Sprint users to cancel Sprint, rebel against contracts and excessive charges by providers.

AT&T

My phone is useless on campus. Useless. I don't get dropped calls; I don't even GET calls. Internet, weather apps, news updates, sending texts--forget it. When I walk of campus, my phone jingles, and I have 20+ emails, texts, and voicemails. AT&T is worthless here. I'm not sure what I am going to do in this case, but since I have a lawyer provided to me through UT, I promise I won't be sticking with AT&T

T-Mobile

I go to UT and service here sucks. I thought it was just me, but I know a couple of areas that no one gets good service. Seems pretty consistent that all phone companies are making people pay for no service, you're not alone!

Verizon

Coverage in this neighborhood is great, but if you live in the 5350 Burnet apartments, you will need to buy a network extender. There is almost no service at all inside the building. This seems to be a problem for people on the first floor, in particular. Before I got a network extender, I couldn't carry on any conversations on my phone at all. Couldn't send texts, either. With the equipment, it's much, much better. My phone's GPS has no idea where I am when I'm connected through the extender, but that's fine. If I need to look up a map at home, I can just do it on my computer.

AT&T

I just dropped off my daughter at Jester Dorm at Univ of Texas. AT&T has no coverage in a dorm with 3000 students! I was in the lobby and outside trying to call my daughter's cell and I had four bars (as did she) and no calls went through. You dial the number and you just get silence. I asked the receptionist in the dorm and she said it was long standing problem. This is crazy in many ways including the fact that I was staying on campus in the AT&T Hotel and Conference Center! This is one of the largest dorms in the US and there are no land line phones in the dorm rooms. How can AT&T not put up a tower nearby to fix this mess. Same problem with text messaging by the way.

Verizon

I just moved to this location. Indoors, that is inside my house, I get essentially no reception. I can occasionally get a EV-DO network readout (with no bars), and I can get a ring through, but not enough signal conduct a full phone call or to keep the call from dropping 50% of the time. Outside, I get 1 bar, which is usually enough to finish a phone call. Ultimately, I will have to switch networks.

T-Mobile

no bars in apartment. called several times and they just gave me some bs about how they couldn't do anything about it.

Nextel

For being boost, it works really well, had it for a month, and only one dropped calls. I can hear the other party that I am talking to almost crystal clear. For being prepaid / 50 a month it is amazing. Draw backs are internet is super slow and text messaging always "downloads" the message and is A LOT slower than any other carrier I have had.

Sprint

I have enough reception to answer a call, but it is immediately dropped. Data reception is intermittent.

T-Mobile

Super fast 3G coverage everywhere in the area (though I do have trouble getting service in a few buildings on the UT campus-especially underground).

Verizon

0 - 2 bars tops. Frequently calls drop and incoming goes straight to voice mail. Sometimes have to go stand in front yard to talk. If carriers were not so secretive about tower locations, you could figure out what the problem was - ie phone, terrain, buildings or what.

AT&T

AT&T used to be good in this area, but now is dropping calls almost every time I drive down Windsor at MoPac and is very poor in my office (Windsor and Exposition).

Sprint

Horrible reception here with Sprint. Apparently the Treo Pro doesn't help either. I really want to cancel my contract. Sprint has been absolutely no help. They kind of just say sorry your in a bad area. They really shouldn't sell me their service if it doesn't work. Hopefully I can use this leverage of the fact that where I live is a kind of dead zone to get out of the disconnect fee.

T-Mobile

What good is a cell phone if it doesn't work at your house? We've tried 3 different phones. Clearly, TMobile's coverage over here stinks.

T-Mobile

Reception drops to zero inside apartment building. 5 bars outside.

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