Electronics in proximity to other electronics

[JoeZhang]

It's to do with the GSM standard as far as I am aware CDMA phones don't do this...

 

[Misfit Toy]

As I told my friend when taking her up for a ride in a Cessna 172: "Portable electronic devices will have no effect on this flight whatsoever."

I didn't think that vibrators qualified for admission to the Mile-High Club...

 

[Lindley]

As far as I know, all she had was a cell phone....

 

[NCC1701]

It's to do with the GSM standard as far as I am aware CDMA phones don't do this...

Indeed, here in New Zealand we have two main mobile phone operators, Vodafone, which is GSM, and Telecom, which is CDMA. I've got a Telecom phone, and I've never had a problem with interference around other electrical equipment. I used to have a Vodafone, though, and it interfered the shit out of everything it came across, and same with friends who have Vodafones. Kinda makes me think GSM phones ain't that healthy to be around

Sadly, Telecom are switching to GSM as well in a few years, so looks like I'm gonna have to put up with it again in the future.

 

[Omnius]

Kinda makes me think GSM phones ain't that healthy to be around

Lol, your logic is fascinating!

I looked it up and the buzzing that you hear when you receive a call or txt is caused due to the fact that GSM uses time division to turn on/off the RF transmitter on a frequency of 217 MHz. It is that pulse that is easily picked up by badly shielded electronic appliances. With CMDA the RF transmitter is always on, so it doesn't cause the interference.

 

[Small White Car]

I looked it up and the buzzing that you hear when you receive a call or txt is caused due to the fact that GSM uses time division to turn on/off the RF transmitter on a frequency of 217 MHz. It is that pulse that is easily picked up by badly shielded electronic appliances. With CMDA the RF transmitter is always on, so it doesn't cause the interference.

Furthermore, the older data frequencies do this but the new ones don't.

Using what AT&T calls 'EDGE' data you'll get speaker hum. If you switch to their 3G network it's very rare to get any speaker buzz.

 

[JoeZhang]

Is your taste in music that bad?

I'll always be a Barbie girl in a Barbie world, Holdfast.

Life in plastic, it's fantastic!

You swept my feet right off the ground, You're the love I found!

My niece had sing stars for christmas and that is one of the songs on there - I never realised how creepy that song was until I had to sing it with a 9 year old girl

I'm a blonde single girl in the fantasy world
Dress me up, take your time, I'm your dollie
You're my doll, rock and roll, feel the glamour and pain
Kiss me here, touch me there, hanky-panky

You can touch, you can play
You can say I'm always yours, oooh whoa

I kept flinching and expecting the police to burst in to drag me away to sign the nonce jotter.

 

[RoJoHen]

I looked it up and the buzzing that you hear when you receive a call or txt is caused due to the fact that GSM uses time division to turn on/off the RF transmitter on a frequency of 217 MHz. It is that pulse that is easily picked up by badly shielded electronic appliances. With CMDA the RF transmitter is always on, so it doesn't cause the interference.

Furthermore, the older data frequencies do this but the new ones don't.

Using what AT&T calls 'EDGE' data you'll get speaker hum. If you switch to their 3G network it's very rare to get any speaker buzz.

In that case, maybe the new phone I just ordered will stop this madness!