Coverage Reviews for Seattle, WA 98126

Rating | Carrier | Zip Code

T-Mobile

Good service until about two months ago. Now with my iPhone in exactly the same spot on my desk, the signal varies from four bars to No Service and back every few minutes. Some phone calls don't get through, others get quickly dropped. In fact, I just took pictures of the screen. No Service at 5:32 pm and four bars at 5:36 pm. The phone hasn't move an inch. Definitely not acceptable service.

T-Mobile

Horrible reception even near windows and on deck. I have problems placing and receiving calls due to poor coverage, and when a call actually goes through, it drops every 3-5 minutes.

Verizon

Calls drop in my apartment on average every 5-10 minutes. It's unbearable. Data constantly goes in and out all over Capitol Hill. I've been working with Verizon tech support for a year now, recording the times of my dropped calls and trying to get help for this terrible service. They are friendly but worthless. One of them told me, "Well, you're in Capitol Hill. That's why your reception is so bad. I hear many complaints about dropped calls in that area. We can't do anything about that.: I'll be switching to TMobile soon because I heard they are decent in Seattle.

Sprint

Terrible reception at home in Roosevelt, at my office at Fifth and Yesler, at my former home on Finn Hill in Kirkland, at my daughter's office on Queen Ann. One dropped call after another. Sprint has been a huge disappointment out here after the superb coverage I had in Washington DC.

Verizon

Been with Verizon for 2 years, definitely switching to a different carrier soon. The most reception I get in my house is 2 bars, drops to 1 or no reception in my basement. Calls dropped often. Overall very poor reception.

Verizon

I had five bars on the Victoria Clipper, in the middle of Puget Sound, miles from land. But I can't get more than one bar in my own house, when I'm next to a window, on the fourth floor. What gives, Verizon?

Sprint

any time I go lnto certain buildings all my bars disapear. and when people try to call me they get message that this phone is out of service. really sucks

T-Mobile

I have no commment other than the ratings that I have given. What else is there to say except to fill this box in?

AT&T

Correction to former review - the primary location I am commenting on is South Lake Union: "This reception business baffles me. I have the cheapest pay as you go phone with AT&T and I have THE BEST reception in a building / area where folks have a terrible time with the other carriers. What gives? Is it perhaps my little Samsung "toy phone"? I even get good reception in the garage below. Too bad this is merely my back up phone. Land line at home"

AT&T

This reception business baffles me. I have the cheapest pay as you go phone with AT&T and I have THE BEST reception in a building / area where folks have a terrible time with the other carriers. What gives? Is it perhaps my little "toy phone". I even get good reception in the garage below. Too bad this is merely my back up phone. Land line at home.

T-Mobile

I always have service in the city. I never experience dropped calls, and I like my 8x.

Sprint

Well, you can't believe those maps. Apparently I am in the "excellent" area for Sprint but I never get more than two bars at home. Since I moved from N. Sea to W. Sea, it started dropping about 30% of my calls. Its quite annoying when you're on a business call with a client and that happens. Now who do I switch too? I guess I'll try Verizon since there are so many complaints for the other carriers.

AT&T

It's alright when you're outside, indoors is insufferable. Must keep the phone by the window, and even then it's a gamble to send / receive texts. Just one bar of 4G, step ten feet from the window and get nothing.

Sprint

Service was great until about 2-3 weeks ago and now it's awful. I've had Sprint for 10 years - and haven't had many issues until now.

Sprint

To whoever posted the info about Sprint on Oct 28, I'm having the same problem. Reception's been fine until a month or so ago and now I get nothing at home. We live in the same area it looks like. I've been on the phone with Sprint several times trying to figure this out. They're telling me that all the towers are working fine. It would be nice to know that others are having reception problems in this area. Please call them as well if you haven't already. Maybe if enough people call, they'll do something about it.

Sprint

Adequate coverage until two weeks ago, then only roaming on Verizon after a long delay. The constant searching for a Sprint connection causes rapid battery exhaustion not seen before.

Sprint

As of 10 / 21, my cell reception has disappeared while I am at home, and continued to deteriorate while away from home. From reading on the internet, it appears the 4G access by Samsung 4G Galaxy SII has been bad for many people. I wonder if I need to downgrade from 4G to 3G. I can make calls freely from Bellevue, with dead zones all over Seattle. I've also read that Sprint has oversold their 4G service, oversaturated? My contract is through CREDO, and I'm very disappointed overall, regret having anything to do with Sprint.

AT&T

Have never had a problem getting reception in Capitol Hill, from Aloha to Union and 15th Ave to Lakeview Blvd. However, reception is spotty in Bellevue, specifically from an upper floor in a highrise near the Transbay Terminal (6th St. and 108th Ave NE).

Sprint

What is going on? Almost no service and my 3G is going in and out when before I had great service! This is ridiculous and planning on switching to another service as soon as my contract is up..lame sprint... pretty lame.

AT&T

The north tip of Mercer Island sucks if you have AT&T. Constant dropped calls. Trying to find out if Sprint and / or Verizon is any better

AT&T

I live in a condo on western and cedar and my ATT reception is below average outside my condo and extremely poor inside my condo, and that's if I stand by the window... wtf!

AT&T

I live and work in the Denny Triangle / SLU area. I have horrendous service. Average bars is 1 - 2. When dialing out from home, it is common to have a call dropped 3 times before it will go through. The service was so bad at my office, that my company had to install its own boosters. My solution is to use Skype on my phone when I have access to WiFi. I get flawless service that way. I liked the suggestion of using the Edge network, but can't seem to access it from my phone. The only options they give me are 2G and 3G, and when I try 2G I get no service.

AT&T

Poor to no reception outdoors and no reception indoors.

AT&T

Bars register (sometimes as many as 4), but as of 7 / 23 / 2012, there is little or no connectivity despite how many bars are visible. Since there's only one tower serving the entire downtown area, my guess is that it's overloaded. Same experience at CenturyLink Field, which is nearby.

AT&T

I usually do not even receive calls -- totally out of touch with my cell!

T-Mobile

Phone seldom rings here as my house is b acked up against and at the bottom of the hill. T-Mobile customer service sucks; there is no way that they will let you access a review of my prepaid minutes on-line. They want you to only use your phone. I chose T-Mobile prepaid thinking I could save some money on the bill with just talk and text buying $100 (1K mins.) but it lasted only one month. as I was anxiousto re-establish phone service after my minutes were used, I re-upped ($100 again) and used them up just as fast so I wanted to check them to see where all the time was acumulating. But no, they don't want you to see the truth that you are being nickel and dimed to the point that it is impossible to verify anything. (yeah, right; I am going to use my iphone to view !,000 minutes of talk and text!) I will never do business with this corporate bull**** again. I had a contract with AT&T for 6 years incl. unlimited data but they slowed the speed so much after minimal use that it was problematic. AT&T was better coverage everywhere in OR and WA but, it is AT&T and all those right-wingers that they are in cahoots with such as the Koch brothers. There is no good alternative that I can see. the missed calls I got (or didn't get) come in hours afterwards all bunched together like a batch of old crap. thanks for reading, I am done here. I may try Credo next depending on their pricing. They donate some money to combat corporate greed.

T-Mobile

I have to throw this disclaimer out there; I love my new Samsung Galaxy and I have been a moderately satisfied T-Mobile customer for 7 years now (originally from the Bay Area), BUT lately it seems I have to power off my phone and restart it completely just to navigate the web browser! I'm talking about basic functions here, and forget about skype altogether! I spent more time on the phone with my service provider than I did with clients last week! I'm tired of being embarrassed when I tell people I use T-mobile... I'm currently jockeying between rate plans to find the right amount of data usage for every day tasks. Truthfully it feels good knowing I'm not the only one here with a love hate relationship with their mobile phone. -John from Alki

T-Mobile

My phone works fine at home and hardly ever got dropped calls. Better than AT &T

AT&T

I have had good reception, 4-5 bars, at my home for years. For the last three or four days the reception has been terrible. Sometime 4G with one bar, other times downgrading to Edge network. Web pages don't load, Google maps doesn't work, and most apps that require a connection either timeout or take minutes rather than seconds to render. Only a week ago this wasn't the case. I thought it was the phone but it works fine in other places. I'm starting to wonder if there's a problem with the AT&T network.

AT&T

Not only don't calls not ring through all the time, but the data loads are really slow. When I bought this phone 2 years ago it was great--5 bars all the time and fast. Now calls are spotty, but data is always slow. I was at Luna Park in West Seattle and like here, I had lots of bars, but my apps didn't work and it quite searching my searches because it took too long. I'm dumping ATT.They always tell me there are new towers, but it just keeps getting worse.

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