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AT&T expands Houston coverage. Is it helping?
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On Wednesday, the Houston Chronicle reported that AT&T is working to improve its mobile broadband coverage in the Houston area. Considering the size of the Houston market, I'm not surprised, but is it working and is the carrier making improvements fast enough?
I spoke to several AT&T customers in the area who all answered that it is not. Their No. 1 complaint is that reception inside homes remains poor, which is interesting considering that AT&T was going to deploy different frequency cellular radios to eliminate such problems. Sure, you can buy a femtocell to boost your in-home coverage, but I don't think that you should have to pay extra for such service.
So the question is, what is going on in your neck of the woods? Has AT&T announced any infrastructure expansion in your area? Have any of these resulted in enhanced, more of the same, or just plain worse services? Please share your experience with AT&T network expansion in the comments or write us at iphoneatlas@cnet.com.
Oh yeah? HOW, WHERE, and WHAT's the PRICE and specific terms of purchase?
Even though the unit was announced way back in January, last time I checked it was still unavailable for subscriber purchase.
ATT did do a good job of getting phone coverage in my area, especially our house. We were in a dead spot for Verizon, Sprint and ATT/Cingular and right now we have great reception in our area. Rarely a dropped call.
I will definately be looking to move me and my families 3 iphones to another carrier once this contract expires. AT&T is a behometh of a company than can't move quick enough without stumbling all over itself. They are withholding basic wireless features, just so they can figure out how to charge for them, when we as customers are already paying outrageous sums for basic 'smartphone' service...I want off the AT&T/Apple tax train please, this is my stop.
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by jr24ds
September 10, 2009 9:13 PM PDT
- they just installed a new cell site where i lived and it's awesome!
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