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Old 03-30-2012, 09:54 AM
 
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I'll be moving to San Francisco area prob Richmond / Pacific Heights / Sunset this summer. Wondering how the AT&T cell phone coverage is in San Fran area?

I'd like to know how good / bad AT&T reception is?
How about other providers Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile?

Appreciate your inputs
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Old 03-30-2012, 11:17 AM
 
Location: SF Bay Area
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From personal experience the best wireless coverage in the bay area is VZW. When I had ATT it was pretty bad. I know many folks with ATT only because the Iphone was locked down to ATT, but not any more.
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Old 03-30-2012, 11:43 AM
 
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It is not good. I currently live in north San Jose and hardly get any signal in my apartment. Like another person said, I had AT&T only because iphone was locked to AT&T.

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I'll be moving to San Francisco area prob Richmond / Pacific Heights / Sunset this summer. Wondering how the AT&T cell phone coverage is in San Fran area?

I'd like to know how good / bad AT&T reception is?
How about other providers Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile?

Appreciate your inputs
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Old 03-30-2012, 01:40 PM
 
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Based on primarily SF-Peninsula-South Bay experience, a bit less East Bay and North Bay: AT&T was bad about 10 years ago but has improved a lot since then. I almost never have a dropped call any more. Verizon? Not so much. Can't comment on others, no recent experience. Caveat - I'm talking Windoze/Java/Android phones here, not iPhone.
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Old 03-30-2012, 02:44 PM
 
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Thanks guys for the inputs.

Heard that AT&T has upgraded the Network in 2012 to 4G / LTE.
Wanted to see if things have improved. I have Iphone now and hate to spend 200 more to buy another if I have to move to Vz
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Old 03-30-2012, 05:14 PM
 
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
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I'll be moving to San Francisco area prob Richmond / Pacific Heights / Sunset this summer. Wondering how the AT&T cell phone coverage is in San Fran area?

I'd like to know how good / bad AT&T reception is?
How about other providers Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile?

Appreciate your inputs
I don't like the AT&T coverage here. Lots of dropped calls and poor reception.

For iphone, Verizon call quality is supposed to be better, but with the disadvantage that you can't use data and voice at the same time, like you can with AT&T.
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Old 03-30-2012, 05:17 PM
 
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For iphone, Verizon call quality is supposed to be better, but with the disadvantage that you can't use data and voice at the same time, like you can with AT&T.
That's true of the phones that use 3G (such as the iphone), but 4G phones no longer have that limitation. Hopefully the next iphone will be 4G, and won't have to deal with that limitation.
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Old 03-30-2012, 05:34 PM
 
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
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That's true of the phones that use 3G (such as the iphone), but 4G phones no longer have that limitation. Hopefully the next iphone will be 4G, and won't have to deal with that limitation.
That's good to know
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Old 07-09-2012, 01:04 PM
 
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Default At&t?

adpsf- did you try ATT and if so what has been your experience thus far. I am thinking about switching from Sprint to ATT in order to join a Family Plan and save money, but I wanted to make sure there were not as many dead spots anymore.
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Old 07-09-2012, 01:23 PM
 
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AT&T coverage is below average in San Francisco. However, it's not bad enough to terminate your contract.
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