Yesterday, my girlfriend called me and just as we were about to hang up, someone abrubtly interrupted speaking Arabic. It was the weirdest thing. I remember when I was a kid, the first cordless house phones we had would some times cross with people around the neighborhood, but I’ve never heard of it happening with cell-phones.
It became obvious that the person didn’t know we could hear him, because he started speaking in mixed French and Arabic, and he was talking to someone. I even tried to ask him if he heard us, but he kept on talking.
Why did this happen?
I’ve no answer to your question, but this sometimes happens with land lines non-cordless phones. Actually, it seems to me it happened much more often in the past. So, I don’t think it’s limited to catching a phone call in the neighborhood with your cordless phone.
It’s the first time I’m told it can happen with a cell phone, though.
It shouldn’t, especially now with digital networks. But I guess there can be a bug in any system. I have had this happen once, but only once, in the 16 years or so I have been using cell phones (since they callled them cellular phones, before people got exhausted from saying all those syllables). That was an analog line.