@Poopsie4 wrote:
Within a minute or so the caller can not hear my voice but I can hear the caller's voice. This does not happen if I make the call. What is the problem?
On the surface, the problem is the holidays. Everybody is shopping, banking, working, out of the house, frantically dealing with last-minute stuff, making arrangements, having long chats with distant friends and family.
The network machinery is running beyond normal peak capacity, traffic is clogging all the bandwidth. Sometimes calls don't go through, dial again. Sometimes calls in progress get dropped. Sometimes calls in progress lose duplex, one party cannot hear the other. Sometimes somebody dials an emergency call and the system clears the channel by dumping others offline.
Under the surface, the problem is basically that mobile cellular is a business, not a charity. They install and operate hardware where they need it, not where you want it. They don't install more capacity than is needed because that just "wastes" money. So there is a network, it can carry a certain amount of traffic, and when there's more traffic then it can carry everything gets jammed up and there's collisions and some people get run off the road.
