Coverage Reviews for Portland, OR 97222

Rating | Carrier | Zip Code

Verizon

Service is always solid if not excellent. I've had many technical issues with my Motorola Bionic but they have done their best to reconcile. I asked for a different phone but to no avail. My only complaint is that the best phones are on big blue and sprint. Ughhh.

Verizon

I have an Android incredible 2 and I have been stuck in a contract with Verizon for the past two years. I get great service every where but where I need it. I don't get service in my house at all I have to walk two blocks down the road before I can make a call, crossing my fingers all the while that the call won't be dropped. I can't get internet in my house either if I didn't have an active WiFi conection my phone would be completly useless. my contract is up in two months and I will be switching carrier's.

Sprint

Data speeds here go from slow to useless. I also get dropped calls from time to time. I asked around the office and I was told Verizon gets a decent signal in the area. I will be trying them out at the end of the year.

Sprint

Clearly Sprint does not care. Am firing them. You do the same. Nuff said.

AT&T

Bought new Nexus 4 in Dec, activated it on T-Mobile and barely had any signal in my home. Sometimes none. Google replaced it twice and still no signal. Finally moved to AT&T and have full 4 bars most everywhere I go in PDX. Problem solved.

AT&T

I have to move around or outside of my house sometimes to make a call.

Verizon

coverage is spotty inside the public safety building they are looking for some kind of bda system so looking for where the neaset verizon tower is for a donar antenna to pick up

T-Mobile

I am on T-Mobile and my 3rd Nexus 4 and still have little or no signal in the area of NE Schuyler and NE 148th.

T-Mobile

no reception starting on 3 / 2 / 13, and still none. this has happened quite a few times in the past few weeks.

Sprint

It's much better than it was 2 years ago. Now downtown Tigard is a different story.

Sprint

I have one bar IF I step outside my home and do cartwheels. inside my home, it just says searching. My brother had to switch from Sprint when he moved here 20 yrs ago. Had a roommate 9yrs ago with no Sprint reception. Hoped that had been resolved, but it has not. Never had any problems with Verizon in this area.

T-Mobile

Suppose to be in one of the higher signal areas yet I rarely see more than two bars of signal and most of the time I one or none.

Sprint

Horrible reception! Can't wait for the contract to end so we can switch carriers.

Sprint

1 bar most of the time. Switches to roam. No data / slow data on roam. Network is unusable.

Sprint

Awful Awful Awful, I am going to switch carriers as soon as humanly possible... I am disappointed that a company charges for services they actually do NOT provide!

T-Mobile

The phone does not work in some locations in the home. It also drops calls quite often.

Verizon

I use an LG enV Touch. However any VW user who comes to my house get bad cell reception as well. I get dropped calls a lot. My text have a hard time going out. Occasionally have NO signal at all. If Verizon wireless is the best network out there, I feel sorry for customers of any other carrier.

AT&T

No problem with making calls outside and walking up street. But very weak to no signal(!) for making calls INSIDE the house. (For this I rely on Comcast landline... ) Also, zero ability to make or take calls along Bonnie Brae / Boca Raton.

AT&T

Signal strengh is not consistent - it varies from a couple of bars at times to none. It is common to lose signal during a call and be disconnected.

Verizon

recepition is very good..on a 1 to 10 recepition 12... .

T-Mobile

Not the best service, plus 2 year contract which I hate. Then I switched over to cricket. TERRIBLE TERRIBLE service. Calls losing connection. Now I don't know what to do. I don't think it is the phone its the companys

Sprint

Terrible broadband speed around town but always connected.

Verizon

My phone (Motorola Razr M) is new and is 4G ready but the service in my area sucks! My phone only has 1 to 2 bars of service and it will jump from 3G to 4G non stop while dropping calls in between. I've called Verizon who sent out a technician who called me back with the conclusion that "there is just bad service in that area. I had to get Internet through Comcast just to be able to use my phone. It's very frustrating! My roommate has Sprint and never has a problem and always has full bars and has yet to drop a call. That's sad when I have to ask her to use her phone on Sprint Network to make my business call, embarrassing actually. Verizon, feel free to put a tower in the back of my yard for the sake of your customers in our neighborhood, I will be forced to take my business elsewhere if this issue is not resolved!

T-Mobile

I dont have a tower close to me that supports 4g. I have made so many calls to tmobile, samsung. I want to know is there a human being in Portland Oregon, that can assist me with this phone. T-Mobile cant, Samsung cant. In other words I have a phone in my house that I cannot use no bars, no 4g, and no connectivity. I am have called at least 15+ times. I cant get this phone fixed, unless I drive somewhere to download a app. This is the worst carrier, I have you for 10 years. The towers around me, only support 2 and 3 g. yes I know you are upgrading from Seattle south, sometime in maybe june I might have service. I dont want a call or response, it doesn't help. I have also talked to a few people around me and they too have been having problems, when their contract expires they are going with another carrier.

AT&T

4-5 bars most of the time in my area, yet 50% of the time calls are dropped or say "call failed". Text messages are often delayed anywhere from 30 mins to several hours. Pretty bad.

AT&T

In the Brooklyn neighborhood (near Ross Island Bridge) call reception is good 3-4 bars, but internet is a bit slow inside my apartment. I work on the northwest end of Hwy. 224 and call reception is good 3-4 bars, and internet is pretty fast as long as I'm outside, or near a window. I dog-sit regularly at a house on SE Woodstock and 36th and the call reception is fine outside, but internet is slow and the phone is almost unusable indoors 0-1 bar.

Sprint

Horrible reception for being on one of the highest hills in town! I have to be in a 2 foot square spot in my kitchen to actually receive calls. Most of the time a call comes in and goes straight to voicemail. I don't even know I've gotten a call until I get the voice mail alert!

AT&T

0~1 bar inside our house. Barely workable when stepping outside onto the street. We bought a MicroCell - which is down most of the times. Don't bother. Then we installed an omni directional antenna near the tip of a 60+ ft cedar tree, and connected it via a 100ft ultra low loss cable to an amplifier and in-house antenna. Now we can talk inside the house most of the times. I may replace the omni directional antenna in the tree with a directional.

Sprint

I can reiterate a lot of what other folks have already said about Sprint service in the Portland, OR metro area. I can also speak to service in the Salem / Keizer area. I took my phone in several times for service thinking all the dropped calls (even outside, no buildings involved) were my phone being a lemon. Turns out it has always been my carrier. I have a Samsung Epic 4G. I also think the 4G is a myth, at least in NE pdx. It wastes more battery looking than I've ever used on purpose! Around the house it will look like I have from 1 to 3 bars. I have three right now. I go to make a call, it drops to 0 to 1 bar. My girlfriend in Keizer has Verizon. She never has trouble with her phone. I will be on the phone with her, and the call will drop 1 to 3 times. If we get to three, she is so irritated we're done talking for the night. I don't blame her! It is incredibly irritating to get interrupted by technology 15x / week or more. Drops happen everywhere else locality wise and line-wise too, she is just the one I talk to the most. We go hiking and she has a bar literally in the middle of nowhere in a valley between two mountains! Don't know how Verizon does it. She had to make a call once in the middle of a backpacking trip to the 3 sisters while in the tent! My phone lost reception before the first side-road off the main highway and wasn't useful thereafter except to drain the battery searching. In a nutshell, you will pay more for Verizon, but with things like a credit union discount (10% / month), and combining centurylink if you have it in NE and other parts of PDX, you can totally do Verizon and have the prices comparable or lower than Sprint. Contract is finally done, switching very soon.

AT&T

I work at the zoo. Reception up here is none - poor. I, unfortunately, need my phone for work. It is causing me to look at Verizon. There are alot of AT&T users up here with bad reception. Help us out AT&T!

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