4G LTE & 5G Coverage In Santa Clara

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

Network	4G Coverage	5G Coverage
AT&T	100%	100%
T-Mobile	100%	100%
Verizon	100%	98%
Dish	0%	73%

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

US Cellular And Dish Roaming Coverage

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

The 73% figure for Dish may understate what subscribers in Santa Clara experience after accounting for roaming agreements.

Santa Clara Cell Signal Strength

There are 430 map hexes within the census-defined boundaries of Santa Clara. 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	15%	77%	7%	0%
T-Mobile	53%	47%	0%	0%
Verizon	40%	60%	0%	0%
Dish	1%	49%	22%	27%

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

Crowdsourced Coverage Data In Santa Clara

Coverage Critic has 15,736 crowdsourced data points from 343 map hexes within the boundaries of Santa Clara. Data is available for AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon.

Network	Unique Hexes	Total Observations
AT&T	253	4,691
T-Mobile	208	4,743
Verizon	281	6,245

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

California State-Wide Coverage Scores

Network	Coverage Score
Verizon	8.8 / 10
AT&T	8.6 / 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 Santa Clara is rated as medium-high confidence. Documentation is available elsewhere covering limitations of Coverage Critic's approach.