Ages ago, I had a Nokia phone with a now defunct U.S. provider called Voicestream. I could hear the callers talking before I picked the phone. Sometimes I would

Ages ago, I had a Nokia phone with a now defunct U.S. provider called Voicestream. I could hear the callers talking before I picked the phone. Sometimes I would hear "He is not answering", but in a few occasions, I heard horrible things :-) I don't even know how that's technically possible. I held on to long after the handset was out of fashion.