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Audio interference when Android receives/sends text or tweet

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I manage a municipal government TV station. We had issues with interference getting into our sound system when an Android, placed on our dais, receives or sends texts (or tweets) that contain a URL. Any ideas why this happens? What can we do about it other than banning androids from the dais? Thank you.
 
Any cellular device sending or receiving texts will turn its transmitter on, which can cause interference with a sound system - this wouldn't be limited to androids. In fact you can get interference even without anything being received - phones periodically handshake with the basestations, and you can hear this too if you put one near a speaker (I often enough hear it on radio interviews, where presumably some interviewee thinks they are too important to turn their phone off for a few minutes). I would have thought it would be best to just keep radio transmitters away from sensitive sound equipment per se.

The bit about "containing a url" is interesting though. I can't see why that would make any difference at all with a text (and probably not a tweet), because it's just characters in a message. So if it really is different when a url is included, that sounds like someone has an app running which responds when a url is detected - maybe resending it somewhere, or possibly loading the link automatically (though that would be appallingly stupid from a security point of view!). Either way, that's not a standard part of Android, so if that's what's happening it's because of something that the user has installed on their phone.
 
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