Which cell providers has the best coverage in Seattle?

[mkarch]

Wait until you have a place to live to pick a carrier. I'm in Seattle Proper but T-mobile service is non-existent at my house, Verizon requires a signal booster and only AT&T can reliably hold calls.

[sparrow1]

Verizon

[BellevueNative]

I had Sprint for 13 years and never had issues with dropped calls or dead zones, and I used to travel all over the country. But I dropped them because they just weren't upgrading their LTE network fast enough; it was starting to impact my work because the network couldn't keep up with my smartphone.

I switched to AT&T two years ago and don't think I've had a single dropped call. It even works for me in the boonies. I switched to AT&T in part because I also wanted to be able to use my own phone when I travel abroad, and you can't really do that with Verizon (with exception of a handful of countries) since it uses a CDMA network (in fact, Verizon and Sprint use many of the same towers). I wanted GSM. I took my phone with me to Africa and used it all over the place, even in the middle of the desert!

[Chris Meyers]

If you travel around the world then you might want to try TMobile. They have the hands down best roaming built into their plan. Free data and text messages in most countries and calls back home from anywhere are 20 cents a minute. That includes everything, the long distance charge, the roaming charge. Youd pay 10 times more at a minimum world roaming with anybody else.

[BellevueNative]

Originally Posted by Chris Meyers

If you travel around the world then you might want to try TMobile. They have the hands down best roaming built into their plan. Free data and text messages in most countries and calls back home from anywhere are 20 cents a minute. That includes everything, the long distance charge, the roaming charge. Youd pay 10 times more at a minimum world roaming with anybody else.

I considered TMobile, but others are correct that there are wide swaths of even downtown Seattle, lower Queen Anne, etc. where TMobile doesn't work at all. That's out of the question for most.

[Chris Meyers]

Originally Posted by BellevueNative

I considered TMobile, but others are correct that there are wide swaths of even downtown Seattle, lower Queen Anne, etc. where TMobile doesn't work at all. That's out of the question for most.

I havent noticed any wide swaths. You might want to try one of the newer LTE phones, they are consolidating all of their network on LTE and adding a new band. I have zero coverage issues anywhere in the city of Seattle. Some of the rurals surrounding is a little hit or miss.

[BellevueNative]

Originally Posted by Chris Meyers

I havent noticed any wide swaths. You might want to try one of the newer LTE phones, they are consolidating all of their network on LTE and adding a new band. I have zero coverage issues anywhere in the city of Seattle. Some of the rurals surrounding is a little hit or miss.

I've never had TMobile. But I had a ton of coworkers who did, and they couldn't even make/receive phone calls inside our modern office building in Queen Anne.

I like my AT&T service and my Samsung phones.