Spooky cellphone interference April 30, 2012 6:41 PM   Subscribe
I'd love to know technical details- how prone are cellphones to
interference like this? I thought they were encrypted to make
this sort of thing hard to do by accident. What sort of
broadcast could it have picked up?  (or am I hearing things?)
posted by BungaDunga to Technology (6 answers total) 3 users
marked this as a favorite Where are you, and who is your service
provider? posted by Chocolate Pickle at 7:05 PM on April 30,
2012  Regular and common occurrence. If you want to learn more
about it, you could start reading about crosstalk. It is often
caused by co-channel interference in wireless networks.  Failing
that, it could be plain old electromagnetic interference but
that usually will interrupt a call. I'm not sure if you would
experience crosstalk or not. posted by purephase at 7:09 PM on
April 30, 2012 [1 favorite]  I'm guessing USA on a CDMA network?
Some phone companies decided it was cheaper to "encrypt" their
phones by having lob