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Rules To Follow When Cell Phones Drop Coverage (rwolpert.typepad.com)
13 points by markbao on June 4, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments


No one should call back. What you were jabbering about wasn't that important anyway.


Sounds like the beginnings of a Seinfeld episode.

Who ARE these people that Double-call The Callback?


oh I do miss seinfeld ;)


Why don't we make like TCP/IP packets: if there's a collision (i.e., you reach voicemail on a callback after a dropped call), wait a random number of seconds before trying to call again.

I actually do this all the time, and it works great.


Exponential backoff also works exceptionally well in the case of dead batteries.


This not new. The phone etiquette since Day 1 has been that the person who made the call, redials.




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