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it has nothing to do with signal strength. the fact that they were able to inject a fake ring tone, means that you were connected to the tower just fine. the
by compsciphd 8y ago
it has nothing to do with signal strength. the fact that they were able to inject a fake ring tone, means that you were connected to the tower just fine.
the issue was that they couldn't connect the call to the other phone's telephone company and pretended it had reached it.
i.e. if you call overseas, you don't hear our ringtone, you hear whatever their ringtone is.
- JumpCrisscross 8y ago> the fact that they were able to inject a fake ring tone, means that you were connected to the tower just fine Do we know this? The tone could have been injected by the device.
- kalleboo 8y agoThe arstechnica story (linked in another comment) clarifies that the ring tone was injected in T-Mobile servers for calls that went over a SIP backbone. So yes we know it was not in the user terminal.
- HenryBemis 8y agoI cannot believe that T-Mobile would remote 'Celebrite'/jailbreak/root a device just to add the necessary files and remote-execute a process to play an mp3 while the Phone-app has taken control. When the Phone-app is running, it automatically thwarts any other sound-using app (such as Spotify, Music, Skype, games)
- solarkraft 8y agoCarriers have enormous control over devices. While we now know it didn't happen, they likely could have easily shipped a manipulated standard phone app since when a carrier gives out a device it is often running customized firmware with the carrier's logo on boot and preinstalled bloat ware like Spotify, Facebook or WPS Office (by my experience with branded os images for Sony Xperias).