Does using a phone to call someone technically make sound travel faster than the speed of sound?

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Does using a phone to call someone technically make sound travel faster than the speed of sound?

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Of course it’s not making the sound go faster, but converting a sound to radio waves and then back to sound will lead to situations where you hear a sound through a cell phone before hearing the sound “in the open”.

For instance, in London, BBC Radio uses a recording of the Big Ben chimes at every hour on the clock, but at 6pm they broadcast the actual sound live from the tower. So, you could go to the bridge next to it, and you’ll hear the bells through a radio before the “raw sound”. [Like in this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dwUWtyRP4c).