Can you explain what happened to this friend of mine during his phone conversation?

Oh I absolutely believe “big brother “ is watching and listening. I can be on the phone, either land line or cell, and mention something and within hours I’m getting an email about the subject. I was talking to a friend about cemetery plots. Got several emails about that. Spoke to a friend about wedding venues. Got several emails on the subject within hours. Carpet? Bingo! Emails! I was joking with a friend about Russian mail order brides. Another swarm of emails. If you don’t believe me, start paying attention to your conversations and emails.

Probably is, @chyna, but I really don’t care. I was looking for a technical explanation for the way his phone behaved..

Rude, much?^^^ Maybe if you’d made that clear in your details…

Oops sorry. Flag me @Dutchess_III

It’s no thing, @chyna. I just wish a tech would come HERE to help me figure this out.

@canidmajor, you might work on your reading comprehension skills.

(distance between satellite 1 and satellite 2) + (7.98 / 3.14) x number of aliens within listening distance – (second hand story + (how much Rachel has had to drink))

Rachael was his wife, sitting next to him.

@Dutchess_III, you might want to work on your e positron writing skills. Just sayin’.

I get an echo of what I’ve said back often when talking on my cell phone. don’t know the technical explanation.

K. Maybe Luckyguy will know. I’ll tag him.

I’m not as concerned with how it’s done. I’m much more interested in the evidence that such features are designed to allow the recording of EVERY conversation transmitted over the air.

Well, let’s figure out how it’s done and why! Is recording the calls a necessity for getting the calls through from point A to point B?

It is not a recording, phones that use VOIP send packet of data that are the sounds made on phone; sometimes they get garbled and the computer tries to straighten them out. It can be a echo or portions of the conversation that repeat.
Rachel’s husband heard it on his end probably because his end was getting garbled.

His point was, Rachel, who was sitting next to him, heard it too, but the guy on the other end didn’t hear it.

Can you explain why it was “played back,” meaning he’d already said his piece, it was received at the other end…then the technology just randomly played it over.? (And what is VOIP?)
Thanks for coming in @Tropical_Willie

Voice Over Internet Protocol-
P O T @ is plain old telephone service. Copper wires connecting the two phones.
VOIP uses the internet which only can handle data, not sound like POTS.

Ah. So what do they do with this data afterward?

It is never taped, saved or stored. The echo is the computer trying to ungarble his words.

If the CIA or FBI recorded every conversation, they’d need a building as big as the Pentagon filled with computers.

LOL!

Thanks. I figured it was something like that. The only thing is, the computer replayed, at fast speed, a section of the discussion that they’d already had….? Or was it using that to put the last thing he said into context?

Hey Dutch. You could try John Powell too…
Maybe Are you kidding me….

I’ll do that. Thanks.

Waa. I can’t find them to follow them so I can share this Q with them. Do you have them followed @MrGrimm888?

If it’s your cell phone it may be a kind of weird loop back. I don’t know what else to call it. But I know if I put my cell phone on speaker or if I have it resting against my hand or near another speaker of some sort, I hear my own voice back. I think phones today are made crappy. Too easy to get interference by having sound bounce back. But I’ve only had it bounce back quickly once that I can recall. Usually it’s at the same speed that I am talking. I just hang up and dial again and make sure it’s not on speaker or have my hand or cell phone case on. I think the cell phone cases also may be an issue. If moving or removing the case or taking it off speaker doesn’t work then I call back. Any of the above usually resolve the issue for me.

Dutch. I don’t think I follow anyone. If I need to track a jelly down, I go to a recent thread in which they likely contributed, click on their name, and PM…

Somebody is playing you. Be wary of scams supposedly from family!

It’s not me. It’s a FB acquaintance.

@MrGrimm888 there is a feature called “Share this question.” If you look to the far right of your topic you can see it. If you click on that, you can then enter a Jelly’s user name to share the question with….but only if you’re following them. So I went and followed John Powell and Are You Kidding Me and shared it with them, to see if they had any insight over and above what Trop Willie gave me….which sounds legit to me. He knows what he’s talking about.

Gotcha. Hope you get some good advice. TW does seem to be aware of this too.

I have to agree with @Tropical_Willie – VOIP was being used. The conversation was broken up into packets and sent out different paths for speed and reliability. The system had to put the pieces back together in the right order on the other end. Likely the string did not look right, so it repeated the process and replayed the now-correct string. Probably sped up the playback to catch up to the right timestamp, too. Makes sense to a VOIP geek, but freaky to normal people.

Thank God I’m normal! But they aren’t “saving” our calls, are they?

I doubt it. Only the CIA keeps a big enough data center to store all VOIP calls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

My understanding of saved conversations, is that there is so much data, nobody could ever sift through it…

So…that’s why they don’t save them. Especially they aren’t going to save our silly conversations with our friends about how wasted we got last weekend.

I used to say key words, in conversation sometimes. Just to get the government to start recording. The more junk, the less reasons to do it at all…