Telephone hacking and interference

[TonyGosling]

Over the last month I've increasingly been making calls out from my phone and got incoming calls which either party or both cannot hear the other.
Its now reached the stage where around half the calls in and out of my phone experience this problem.

Wonder if anyone else has been having the same?

extract from my recent piece - cos this is destroying my ability to do my job
Social media: Weapon of PsyWar & you’re the target
....Vodafone are hardly a mobile phone firm that's 'for the people', more into forging new paths to tax avoidance and 'chancers' seeing what they can get away with. Having a smart phone with mobile data, I seem to have become some kind of plaything on Vodafone and the spooks' desktops. Switching on data these days I've found that my phone's microphone can be switched off remotely any minute, even in the middle of a conversation. How very chic, they don't have to sack me any more just silence me by remote control.
Leaving messages on MPs voicemails when I don't know if my microphone is working has become a cat and mouse game. How long will I keep trying to invite the politician on the radio, or will the hackers stop me? Hackers can now detach a journalist from his source with the click of a mouse, or perhaps simply program an NSA behemoth mainframe to do it for them.
I uninstalled my 'Twitter app' too last week because the damned thing was shutting off the internet and would cut my phone completely off from the network on a whim. Life has been a lot easier without Twitter messing around on my phone. But here's the rub: it is Twitter, not the spooks, that demands its app has permission to - excuse me - alter my contacts book, and alter my password-secured account settings. Twitter is bending over backwards for the spooks.
http://rt.com/op-edge/psywar-internet-nsa-media-309/

[fish5133]

Have noticed problems with my phone not being able to pick up a signal (or a much weaker signal) in places where previously had no problem.