Echo problem with iPhone

[know1uno]

I've had a few people tell me that when they are speaking with me and I'm on the iPhone, they hear an echo. Today was the first day I heard it myself, as I was talking to my Mom on the phone.

I always use the iPhone headset when using my phone as I talk a lot while I am driving in the car and I refuse to use Bluetooth.

Has anyone else had this same type of problem with the iPhone headsets? I'm wondering if that is the cause of my problem with the echo?

[jptolife]

Who knows what the cause is but I've also had this problem before. It might simply be AT&T and the connection of the call.

[Quake97]

I second the blame for AT&T.

Joe

[kevlar08]

has never happened to me, but ill follow suite and blame AT&T

[Nikki205]

Does the echo continue if you stop using headset? If yes, headset is problem. If not, try lowering the volumn on your end and also the other party's end. Good luck.

[Dallas Phil]

Just for the heck of it turn off 3G and see if you still get the echo.

[iStealth]

I'll blame AT&T also, since it only happens to me every once in a while.

[rmfnla]

For once, everyone is correct to blame AT&T.

Phone networks have repeaters to maintain signal strength along the lines. When a signal hits a repeater (or any device, for that matter) there is a bit of bounce-back called "echo."

Repeaters have echo-cancelling circuitry to combat this but sometimes it goes down. You or people you are calling are hearing this echo because there is a bad repeater in your area.

Contact AT&T tech support and tell them about it; they want to know this stuff.

[Quake97]

When I get the "echo," it is there regardless of a headset or the handset. It's AT&T.

Joe

[rmfnla]

Exactly; it's in the network hardware, not your equipment.