Coverage Reviews for San Francisco, CA 94103

Rating | Carrier | Zip Code

Verizon

Why must I purchase a range extender to be plugged into my Comcast Network for my phone to work? If I get unacceptable service shouldn't the network device be provided, at least if they want to retain existing customers and not offer some ridiculous deal to lure us back in the future. Seems like a very shortsighted business practice.

AT&T

Every single call from anywhere in my apartment breaks up. Either I can't hear them or they can't hear me. Half of my calls are dropped altogether. Sometimes I go outside to use phone but that's not very safe and there's a lot of noise from traffic etc. Appears there are only two towers in all of Oakland and they aren't anywhere near downtown. Wish I knew this before I got stuck with AT&T.

MetroPCS

get phone calls but they all drop. so frustrating. The only thing about metro is no contracts. WTF

T-Mobile

T-Mobile coverage map shows excellent coverage in the Presidio of San Francisco. They clearly have not visited the area. Service sucks.

AT&T

Connectivity is quite poor, and sometimes drops entirely. My apartment is in the 2nd floor, and reception at the ground level is no better.

AT&T

Constant dropped calls. Barely audible by anyone. Texting is fine. But attempts at utilizing the internet are nearly impossible via my phone. I am required to sit or lay in one spot in my apartment, otherwise I lose reception. It is HORRIBLE. When I leave my neighborhood, all calls work fine. Even in different cities. Never had problems with my AT&T until I lived here.

Verizon

I have almost no reception inside or outside my house. I was told by technical support that I was in a marginal area. I was told I could purchase a device for $250 that might help. All the maps provided by Verizon show that reception was good in my area.

AT&T

Barely any reception at all, maybe 1.5 bars. Customer service told me they had a tower in the neighborhood that needed maintenance, but could not say when it would be performed. This was six months ago or more and nothing has changed. I dont know if any other carrier is any better on the island.

T-Mobile

Very bad reception and at times no reception at all. I used to get four bars even by the beach but since 2011 the service has changed. I wonder why the change.

AT&T

I can only have a phone call in one part of my apartment, and the calls get dropped frequently.

Verizon

After a service call, Verizon has admitted to "marginal service" on my street. The answer: buy a network extender for $249. What? I have to pay for your crappy service?

AT&T

Terrible service next to window or at the street corner. iPhone5 has 1 less bar in general than 4S. Very upsetting to have zero bars 95% of the time.

Verizon

Reception is not consistent on the VA campus. My office area has poor to non-exixtent coverage.

Verizon

Very often I don't even get 1 bar. People can't hear me on my phone, and I can't hear them. I can only send a text message if I'm standing right by the window; photo messages require me to stand outside. Last night it took me almost an hour to deposit a check with my electronic bank. I kept taking pictures and getting all the way to the "deposit" option and then I'd get the message that the signal wasn't good enough.I ended up going out into the street to do it. Very safe! I'm also not sure that I'll ever get through to 911 if I need to in an emergency. When my contract's up I'm heading for straight talk. Their service can't possibly be worse than Verison's on Alameda. In fact, I'll probably cancel early as soon as the savings outweigh the penalty. Get any other carrier but Verizon!

AT&T

Few problems with AT&T in my apt and general area - it is once I get to civic center / hayes valley when I no longer have a signal.

AT&T

Signal goes in and out comes and goes, lousy ATT I am getting 1.1x Edge speed on 3G which means why bother? - driving down Grand St.off the tunnel the signal Always disconnects. Through iPhone 3G I can barely hear at full volume.

Sprint

Dissapointing data speed, never more than 3 bars at home and I live near a tower too, I happen to pass by the tower everyday to get to work.

Sprint

Cannot make calls from inside my apartment - they might connect, but drop immediately. I have to go outside to use my phone. It's not a great situation.

T-Mobile

T-Mobile is useless inside my apartment building. i'm extremely disappointed. Sprint and AT&T both work inside my apartment but T-Mobile is the worst. Zero bars. T-Mobile's coverage map lies.

T-Mobile

Almost no reception, constantly cuts in and out. Same phone on AT&T has perfect signal in the same location.

Sprint

Getting more towers in so I'm curious to see how fast the Internet will be in a few weeks !

Verizon

Very spotty reception. Call drop quite frequently indoors and often times there is difficulty to even place calls.

AT&T

I can't receive or make calls from my home or anywhere within a three block radius... maybe more. I live at the bottom of two hills. I can sometimes see that I've missed calls. But often, the calls don't even show up as missed calls until the next day. I can get texts -- sometimes, but often have to try multiple times to successfully send a text from my home. ATT's customer service people have recommended that I purchase an ATT proprietary device that's supposed to improve my reception in my home. Seriously???? I should pay to fix their poor coverage problem? I already pay $150 / month for this rubbish service. I've just been waiting for my 2-year contract to end so I can leave ATT. I'm shopping for another provider. Friends of mine who use Verizon seem to be able to make calls from my house. But I'm exploring all the options. I would gladly switch to T-Mobile or Metro GPS or Virgin -- though I hear that they too have poor reception in San Francisco. Suggestions?

T-Mobile

I have travelled around the world with my Nokia E63, utilizing about 10 networks in 3 yrs. I have had no unusual problems with it until moving to San Francisco 4 months ago. In Seattle (even as recently as 2 wks ago), my T-Mobile service works fine. In SF, tons of call drops, clipped voice transmission (sending), clipped or absent text messages (sending), wildly oscillating signal strength which will drop to zero in downtown SF for as long as 15-20 mins at a time, then magically reappear at 5 bars. Extremely frustrating and I've both called and visited cust. service and still, no solution.

Sprint

sprint no good I wont renew contract ever again cause it is just to much to do to get or make calls drops all cals unless I go out in the rain! NO!

AT&T

Poor reception sometimes no bars. Very over priced I demand to be let off my contract at&t!

T-Mobile

On the third floor Ill get 1 or 2 bars, though its chopping and conversations are difficult. One the 1st or 2nd floors, I get no signal at all. where my Verizon work phone has no issues at all.

AT&T

I consistently get a few bars that I refer to as "phantom" bars because while they appear as bars on the phone, I'm unable to maintain any phone conversations at all.

MetroPCS

The MetroPCS signal at the Brisbane Marina is at best 2 bars.

T-Mobile

I live in the Aldea UCSF housing complex (across the street from the sutro tower). T-Mobile coverage absolutely sucks here. I have tried it with multiple phones (Nokia, Samsung) and there are 0 bars up here. I do get 1 bar when the phone is stationary in 1 corner of the house but as soon as I pick it up.. 0 bars. My wife's AT&T service seems to work ok (1-2 bars consistently). Closer to UCSF T-mo does get 1-2 bars but in quite a few spots coverage is absolutely ZERO. AT&T works better closer to UCSF too. Switching over my T-Mobile to VZW.

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