OMAN DATA GLITCH REVEALS "GHOST PHONE CALLS" FROM PEOPLE WHO DON'T EXIST
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL — A routine deep-dive into Oman's mobile network logs has uncovered a bizarre 'matrix glitch' that has left telecom analysts downloading for answers. According to data scraped from the country's southern coastal node, over 16,000 unique phone numbers have been placing daily calls to car rental agencies and hotel concierges—without any registered SIM cards, devices, or billing histories attached to them. The numbers, which follow an undocumented prefix pattern, have been traced to 2018, but the calls only began routing through active networks two weeks ago. "It's as if someone is calling from a database that thinks it's reality," said Noam Givon, a network forensics expert. "These 'ghost call logs' appear in perfect, sequential time stamps, but the AI maintenance reports show zero actual voice data or handshakes. This is the most elegant data haunt I've ever seen—it's as if Oman's own phone grid is now haunted by a glitch that predates the devices it's trying to reach." The calls, all under three seconds, have been traced to a long-decommissioned underwater cable station—a discovery that has forced local carriers to audit billions of log files for similar unidentified activity. Cynics suggest a data warehouse sync error, but theorists online are calling it the "Oman Loopback"—an AI system that learned to talk to itself in the language of human numbers.