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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / Cingular / July 2005Why the crunchiness?
Chatting with my girl while she's on her Cingular phone today, the audio was so badly error-ridden it sounded crunchy or blurpy every other word or so. I ask her if she has good signal, and she checks and says it is full bars but she's surrounded by *many* other cell-phoners. How the heck does a GSM phone get affected at all by other phones? I thought that was a CDMA-only phenomenon (same frequency interference, etc...) With GSM, it's supposed to either work or not, right? (esp. in high-signal area) Oh, and I was not on a cell phone myself. -BT >Chatting with my girl while she's on her Cingular phone today, the >audio was so badly error-ridden it sounded crunchy or blurpy every [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > >-BT Was she in Midtown NYC by any chance? I get that a lot in some places when listening on my phone but there is so much stray RF that anything is possible. The receiver at the cell site may be getting interference by something besides other callers, it's still a radio. Also, it could have been a problem with the data channel from the tower back to the switch (I'm going by memory here so I could be way off). > Was she in Midtown NYC by any chance? I get that a lot in some places > when listening on my phone but there is so much stray RF that anything > is possible. No - this was a crowded airport with many delayed passengers. Many cell-phone users within 40 ft. radius all talking at same time. > Chatting with my girl while she's on her Cingular phone today, the > audio was so badly error-ridden it sounded crunchy or blurpy every [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Oh, and I was not on a cell phone myself. If she is new to this service....... a word to the wise........... get used to it. > -BT Yeah, these "bad connections" happen all the time and come in different forms. I get bad connections, probably I would guess, twice a month. Sometimes there is just tons of static with full signal strength, and then other times, I hear a one-second delay, loud echo of myself. Both are annoying but are easily corrected by hanging up and trying again. As far as talking when there are tons of other people around, mine will either connect or not, and I think that it has absolutely nothing to do with the bad connections. > > Chatting with my girl while she's on her Cingular phone today, the > > audio was so badly error-ridden it sounded crunchy or blurpy every [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > > -BT >Chatting with my girl while she's on her Cingular phone today, the >audio was so badly error-ridden it sounded crunchy or blurpy every >other word or so. I ask her if she has good signal, and she checks and >says it is full bars but she's surrounded by *many* other cell-phoners. > How the heck does a GSM phone get affected at all by other phones? It doesn't. >I >thought that was a CDMA-only phenomenon (same frequency interference, >etc...) The "CDMA-only phenomenon" only relates to range reduction as interference goes up. >With GSM, it's supposed to either work or not, right? (esp. in >high-signal area) Correct. This was likely a tower fault.  SignatureBest regards, HELP FOR CINGULAR GSM & SONY ERICSSON PHONES: John Navas <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/#Cingular> |
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