Cannot hear on iphone 4

Recently I cannot hear callers - speaker stopped working. Speaker phone works fine. I have run latest software updates. Any suggestions.
Thanks

I am experiencing the same problem, started about 10 days ago. To date, I have reset network settings, and have restored to default without success.
The weird thing with my issue I've noticed, after I go through a half dozen attempts at calling and recalling the person back, eventually, the problem goes away and the caller can hear me without issue after that. But then that may just be the 50% of the time occurrence.
So, I wonder if this is signal related, although it has occurred in 3 different locations in the US. Or if there is some restricted, or privacy policy that is related to AT&T regarding my account when calling. Kind of like being on a no fly list?
However, I can't continue with this happening, everyone says I am give Steve Jobs a bad name, so its to the genius bar or whatever they call it these days, I am heading.

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