Good thought, just remembered I had something similar one time when working at a festival. There it was because of wireless microphones that somehow interacted with the phone network.
Maybe some special equipment of the bases use special protocols that interfere with other devices that are not programmed for it.
Could be something in this direction, but the when it happened I was some times out in the nature, no building or antenna near me. As far as I know some military equipment can interfere with civilian technology, as they do not care much about it when a war is going on.