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Amazing!!! I would have just dismissed it as static interference, and not even think twice.

Hmmm, makes me think twice about the beeping sounds I hear when my phone is right next to my radio. I know it's data being transmitted/received, but I wonder if it can be deciphered in this manner.

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It's the phone checking in with the base station. As someone who records sound for a living, this is one of the banes of my professional life - I tell people on film sets to turn their phones off, and they think I mean 'don't use your phone' whereas in fact I mean 'shut it down completely.'

She already did that :)

http://www.windytan.com/2013/01/the-gsm-buzz.html

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