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Anthony - 26 May 2006 03:43 GMT

The last 2 days people have called me and can barely hear me. Also I can
call myself even and go straight to voice mail when my phone is on. Anyone
else experieicng this lately? I am using my PPC 6600.

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David G. Imber - 26 May 2006 09:39 GMT

>The last 2 days people have called me and can barely hear me. Also I can
>call myself even and go straight to voice mail when my phone is on. Anyone
>else experieicng this lately? I am using my PPC 6600.

Location?

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Anthony - 26 May 2006 16:23 GMT

oklahoma 405 area code I e-mailed sprint and wating on a response now.

>>The last 2 days people have called me and can barely hear me. Also I can
>>call myself even and go straight to voice mail when my phone is on. Anyone
>>else experieicng this lately? I am using my PPC 6600.
>
> Location?

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Paul Miner - 26 May 2006 19:31 GMT

>The last 2 days people have called me and can barely hear me.

Mondo chunk of pocket lint or some kind of cheese covering your
microphone? :-)

>Also I can
>call myself even and go straight to voice mail when my phone is on. Anyone
>else experieicng this lately? I am using my PPC 6600.

All the time, or just sometimes? I've experienced this periodically
(maybe 0-3 times a month) for the past 6 years that I've had Sprint
service. I don't know for sure, but it seems like the network was
unable to locate your phone in the time allowed, so it routed the call
to VM. Maybe someone else knows for sure.

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larryt510@hotmail.com - 26 May 2006 20:22 GMT

There could be a few different reasons for it but the most likely is
that you are on a NID (network identification) border. That means that
your phone is pulling in signal from two or more towers at the same
time that are linked to different network switches. What happens is
the paging channel tries to locate the phone to deliver the incoming
call but fails to find the phone in time because the phone is bouncing
between different switches (NID's). This is a common problem and
there's nothing that can be done by anyone to fix it.

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Chris - 26 May 2006 21:57 GMT

>There could be a few different reasons for it but the most likely is
>that you are on a NID (network identification) border. That means that
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>between different switches (NID's). This is a common problem and
>there's nothing that can be done by anyone to fix it.

I have this problem every day at work, I can sometimes fix this by setting to
roam only and using the analog tower down the road, but it depends on the day.
Sometimes it's OK, sometimes I get nothin. I'm using a Samsung A560. Thankfully
if I can connect and get heard, I usually don't fade. I'm in clearwater, FL near
the airport.

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larryt510@hotmail.com - 26 May 2006 22:27 GMT

Yep you could be on the boundary of two different switches. The type
of phone you use doesn't matter in these situations because it's the
network that's at fault.

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Anthony - 27 May 2006 18:12 GMT

I mut be right between 2 towers to. Caue At random times I can go into
roaming digital roaming then full network sitting here I am watching my
bars go from full to nothing. UGG wis hI could choose the tower lol

> Yep you could be on the boundary of two different switches. The type
> of phone you use doesn't matter in these situations because it's the
> network that's at fault.

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larryt510@hotmail.com - 29 May 2006 08:38 GMT

Yeah that sounds like it could be a severe case of pilot pollution.
What happens is that the phone will pick up PN offsets from two
different towers and bounce back and forth between them. But one of
towers is either too far away or has too much interference from terrain
or obstacles and as a result has a super high EC/IO (noise pollution in
the signal) to be of much use. When you're on the good tower things
can be fine. But when the phone picks up the bad tower is when your
signal goes way down.

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