TDMA, Philly PA: Delayed Rings?

[user]

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I've been getting periods where the caller hears 3-4 rings on their end, but my
phone only rings once or maybe a half ring - no time to get it out of my pocket
and hit "Talk"...so I miss the calls.

Sometimes it's worse than others, but before this started there's no doubt that
the caller and I could hear 3-4 rings until the call dropped to voice mail.

Now it's like one ring or a partial ring and the caller hits voice mail. When I
ask the caller how many rings they heard, it's always 3-4. I've tested it a
few times from my landline and experienced the same thing.

Something to do with the system being overloaded?
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PeteCresswell

 

[jeremy]

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"(Pete Cresswell)" <x@y.z> wrote in message
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> I've been getting periods where the caller hears 3-4 rings on their end,
but my
> phone only rings once or maybe a half ring - no time to get it out of my
pocket
> and hit "Talk"...so I miss the calls.
>

I'm TDMA in NE Philly, and have not noticed any problems. Actually it
appears that I'm getting more bars now that the Cingular towers are
accessible as home network. I still occasionally see "Extended Area," and
have no idea what network the phone is connecting with.

But I have seen no problems receiving calls.