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Why does my phone have an echo when I use it?

 
jp
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01/18/2009 11:12 PM
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Why does my phone have an echo when I use it?
I've noticed sometimes my phone does this?

Anyone?
Winningjob

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01/18/2009 11:15 PM
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Re: Why does my phone have an echo when I use it?
Generally if you hear an echo, my experience is that someone is listening besides the other party. For example, when you call companies or bill collectors/telemarketers...you can hear the echo as someone is monitoring them to make sure they are doing what they are supposed to do.

Cell phones and hand helds are the easiest to pick up and/or monitor even neighbors. Landlines are a little different.
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01/18/2009 11:17 PM
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Re: Why does my phone have an echo when I use it?
first maybe think for a second before you get all paranoid. your phone is a piece of shit.
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01/18/2009 11:19 PM
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Re: Why does my phone have an echo when I use it?
Of course, I should add that if you are not being monitored which again can be done cheap by anyone..then it could also be the other phone picking up your voice and sending it back to you.
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01/18/2009 11:19 PM
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Re: Why does my phone have an echo when I use it?
I've noticed sometimes my phone does this?

Anyone?
 Quoting: jp 545847



My phone has been sounding that way too, an echo like someone is on the other line, my boyfriend has noticed it too. I have no idea what is going on.
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Re: Why does my phone have an echo when I use it?
first maybe think for a second before you get all paranoid. your phone is a piece of shit.
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You have never researched the government then.
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01/18/2009 11:23 PM
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Re: Why does my phone have an echo when I use it?
Of course, I should add that if you are not being monitored which again can be done cheap by anyone..then it could also be the other phone picking up your voice and sending it back to you.
 Quoting: Winningjob


coil tap
call recording software
Butt set or a Beige box, or an induction coil
bug
radio scanner
Fred Fuzzburger
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01/18/2009 11:27 PM
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Re: Why does my phone have an echo when I use it?
It's not your phone. It's you. The echo is because of your empty skull. The conversation just rattles around in there.
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01/18/2009 11:30 PM
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Re: Why does my phone have an echo when I use it?
Someone must be pretty bored to listen in on me.

It doesn't happen all the time.

wierd indeed.
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01/18/2009 11:36 PM
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Re: Why does my phone have an echo when I use it?
THIS SOUNDS WEIRD BUT: I swear a few times I've talked on the phone and very faintly I heard at the end of the phone call after I said goodbye a man and a woman commenting on what I just said like they were listening and talking to each other about the phone call. In the movies when there is phone tapping, it's usually just one person listening or recording, not two people talking about the phone call. It has happened on my landline.
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01/18/2009 11:40 PM
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Re: Why does my phone have an echo when I use it?
Generally if you hear an echo, my experience is that someone is listening besides the other party. For example, when you call companies or bill collectors/telemarketers...you can hear the echo as someone is monitoring them to make sure they are doing what they are supposed to do.

Cell phones and hand helds are the easiest to pick up and/or monitor even neighbors. Landlines are a little different.
 Quoting: Winningjob


You could speak to the Security guys listening:
"Hey government! Your tap is causing interference. Can't you do a better job?"

I got a friend who does that during our conversations when there are noises on the line.
Odd coincidence is the noises always stop right afterward.

Like Henry Kissinger said:
"Even paranoids have enemies."


Cell phones can be turned on to broadcast voices nearby even when the phone is turned off.
Government calls doing that a "Roving Wiretap"
Winningjob

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01/18/2009 11:41 PM
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Re: Why does my phone have an echo when I use it?
You could speak to the Security guys listening:
"Hey government! Your tap is causing interference. Can't you do a better job?"

I got a friend who does that during our conversations when there are noises on the line.
Odd coincidence is the noises always stop right afterward.

 Quoting: himself

LOL, I have done that and you are right. A few times I and the other person heard a click afte I said that, lol!!!
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01/18/2009 11:42 PM
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Re: Why does my phone have an echo when I use it?
I was on the phone a couple weeks ago to cancel a service. There was an echo. When I commented on it, the clerk said to hold on, she could try something to fix it.

It went away when she came back, and I said that I didn't know they could do that. She said something about troubleshooting, I think. It went away so I thought nothing of it afterward.

Monitoring software is a possibility. They might have been able to determine what kind of phone I was using and switch to the correct software.
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01/18/2009 11:44 PM
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Re: Why does my phone have an echo when I use it?
first maybe think for a second before you get all paranoid. your phone is a piece of shit.

You have never researched the government then.
 Quoting: Winningjob

you have never researched cell phones then.
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Re: Why does my phone have an echo when I use it?
I've noticed sometimes my phone does this?

Anyone?
 Quoting: jp 545847


Any chance you have it set to loudspeaker when it does this?

Mine does that when it is set to loudspeaker.
"Everybody lies."
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01/18/2009 11:46 PM
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Re: Why does my phone have an echo when I use it?
I usually SCREAM INTO THE PHONE BEFORE, AND AFTER A CALL WHILE I'M STILL ON THE LINE, I'm sure there are more 'casual' persons to listen too as long as I contine to do that often, and it releases some tension too, TRY IT!!!!
;>
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01/18/2009 11:48 PM
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Re: Why does my phone have an echo when I use it?
you have never researched cell phones then.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 587970

No, not my expertise.

However, that still does not change the fact that people are monitored and have been since Lincoln. Some for training and quality purpose!

Actually, you might remember when Clinton changed the law...don't you?

BTW, if you thought I was taking a jab at you..I wasn't. I am saying when you are investigating NASA and the government and other governments and trying to get responses and clips for things, they DO LOOK INTO YOU.

Even though already broken on Prime Time, try researching The Greenbrier and see if you do not get someone calling you.
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01/18/2009 11:51 PM
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Re: Why does my phone have an echo when I use it?
I usually SCREAM INTO THE PHONE BEFORE, AND AFTER A CALL WHILE I'M STILL ON THE LINE, I'm sure there are more 'casual' persons to listen too as long as I contine to do that often, and it releases some tension too, TRY IT!!!!
;>
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1978


try a whistle (like a referee's) ...deafen the fuckers.
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01/18/2009 11:53 PM
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Re: Why does my phone have an echo when I use it?
All phone calls go through an Israeli company called AMDOCS. They listen to whatever they want.
iteration

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01/18/2009 11:53 PM
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Re: Why does my phone have an echo when I use it?
Why does everyone seem to think that the second their phone starts acting weird it's the government?

As stated before, phones do weird things. Being paranoid about it is weirder. If the government is all knowing and all powerful, you wouldn't know about the tap or would be able to do anything about it anyway.
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01/19/2009 12:04 AM
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Re: Why does my phone have an echo when I use it?
It is a proven fact that comverse and amdocs can listen to any conversation in the U.S. There is a back door built into your phone. You people need to google HOW ZIONISTS LISTEN IN and blackmail every single politician in the U.S. This info has been on TV--the controlled media.
Only Me
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01/19/2009 12:10 AM

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Re: Why does my phone have an echo when I use it?
This happens almost every time I'm on the phone with Omega.
Goodbye, halcyon days...

 There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory mentioned, which states that this has already happened.
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01/19/2009 12:12 AM
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Re: Why does my phone have an echo when I use it?
Bad connection, crossed lines, etc.

As per govt snooping - no
Anonymous Coward
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01/19/2009 12:17 AM
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Re: Why does my phone have an echo when I use it?
wtf google amdocs comverse
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01/19/2009 12:17 AM
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Re: Why does my phone have an echo when I use it?
You need a duck phone. They can't echo.
Winningjob

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01/19/2009 12:19 AM
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Re: Why does my phone have an echo when I use it?
Bad connection, crossed lines, etc.

As per govt snooping - no
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 520854

The NSA is authorized by executive order to monitor, without warrants, phone calls, e-mails, Internet activity, and text messaging, and other communication involving any party believed by the NSA to be outside the U.S., even if the other end of the communication lies within the U.S.

It used to be one out of 10 at one point (maybe it was 1 out of 100). I do not know what it is now. I am not going to say that monitoring is good or bad..just that it has been going on since the American Civil War.
Only Me
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Re: Why does my phone have an echo when I use it?
Bad connection, crossed lines, etc.

As per govt snooping - no

The NSA is authorized by executive order to monitor, without warrants, phone calls, e-mails, Internet activity, and text messaging, and other communication involving any party believed by the NSA to be outside the U.S., even if the other end of the communication lies within the U.S.

It used to be one out of 10 at one point (maybe it was 1 out of 100). I do not know what it is now. I am not going to say that monitoring is good or bad..just that it has been going on since the American Civil War.
 Quoting: Winningjob


I'm sure they find some of my phone calls downright hilarious.
Goodbye, halcyon days...

 There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory mentioned, which states that this has already happened.
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Re: Why does my phone have an echo when I use it?
Bad connection, crossed lines, etc.

As per govt snooping - no

The NSA is authorized by executive order to monitor, without warrants, phone calls, e-mails, Internet activity, and text messaging, and other communication involving any party believed by the NSA to be outside the U.S., even if the other end of the communication lies within the U.S.

It used to be one out of 10 at one point (maybe it was 1 out of 100). I do not know what it is now. I am not going to say that monitoring is good or bad..just that it has been going on since the American Civil War.


I'm sure they find some of my phone calls downright hilarious.
 Quoting: Only Me

LOL
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01/19/2009 12:45 AM
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Re: Why does my phone have an echo when I use it?
this thread was taken down for truth--amdocs
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01/19/2009 12:58 AM
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Re: Why does my phone have an echo when I use it?
call phone company when tech shows up ask him to switch u to a good "pair" assuming you are on copper.

there should be plenty of spare with the rate people are dumping land lines.

if u think some one is listening hit disconnect and release quick if someone else is on line u will still have a connection.
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01/19/2009 01:11 AM
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Re: Why does my phone have an echo when I use it?
This happens to me when I am talking to my wife, who is still
overseas. I can see that I am not alone in this scenario.





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