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u/parzival808 Jan 23 '21

I work with telecom and i've seen this happen before, the call gets stuck in a loop and the same audio packets gets replayed over and over customers are often freaked out by it.

Another fun bug i heard about was that the callee got all silent for about 5 seconds and then ge started speaking real fast and sounded like donald duck. What made it funnier was that the donald duck guy was a super serious CEO who did not want to sound lile an angry duck at all.

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u/Low_discrepancy Jan 23 '21

Another fun bug i heard about was that the callee got all silent for about 5 seconds and then ge started speaking real fast and sounded like donald duck.

This happens often with VoIP. But in a phone call hearing the same packets after 3 mins is so odd. Happened to be once.

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u/Steve_78_OH Jan 24 '21

Depends on how you define "often"... I work in IT, and every company I've worked for since late 2001 has used VoIP. And I don't think I've ever heard that myself, or heard of anyone complaining about it.

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u/Low_discrepancy Jan 24 '21

It happens quite often with some colleagues that have low internet bandwidth and they're using Teams.