4G LTE & 5G Coverage In Brownsville

The table below shows the proportion of Brownsville with coverage from different cellular technologies.

Network	4G Coverage	5G Coverage
AT&T	100%	99%
T-Mobile	94%	89%
Verizon	100%	32%
Dish	0%	100%

Don't be alarmed by Dish's lack of 4G coverage in Brownsville. Dish has a newly-built network that's 5G-only.

US Cellular And Dish Roaming Coverage

US Cellular does not have native coverage in Brownsville. However, some US Cellular subscribers may still have coverage in Brownsville thanks to roaming agreements.

Brownsville Cell Signal Strength

There are 3,109 map hexes within the census-defined boundaries of Brownsville. The table below shows the proportion of hexes at various levels of signal strength. Where both 4G and 5G coverage is available, data is drawn from whichever technology offers a stronger signal.

Network	Strong	Decent	Weak	None
AT&T	7%	49%	43%	0%
T-Mobile	24%	44%	25%	6%
Verizon	14%	71%	16%	0%
Dish	12%	77%	11%	0%

For most purposes, decent signals are perfectly sufficient. Weak or non-existent signals cause far greater degradation in user experience.

Due to data-reliability concerns, 335 hexes in Brownsville that fall in bodies water, along rivers, or near shorelines are excluded from the table above.

Crowdsourced Coverage Data In Brownsville

Coverage Critic has 82,192 crowdsourced data points from 965 map hexes within the boundaries of Brownsville. Data is available for AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon.

Network	Unique Hexes	Total Observations
AT&T	687	41,470
T-Mobile	889	39,719
Verizon	12	727

Click here to toggle to the map's crowdsourced data layer.

Texas State-Wide Coverage Scores

Network	Coverage Score
Verizon	8.7 / 10
AT&T	8.7 / 10
T-Mobile	8.2 / 10

Data Sourcing

Coverage maps draw on data from the FCC's Broadband Data Collection and Coverage Critic's crowdsourcing.

The coverage information for Brownsville is rated as medium-high confidence. Documentation is available elsewhere covering limitations of Coverage Critic's approach.