Re: Phone Records

In article <1174467047.708771.116890@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"svu geek" <mejealous1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm talking about records of local phone calls made from the home
phone and phone calls received. It's not for me but a relative I'm
helping with a legal problem. They need to prove that they made a call
to someone on a certain date. It would also be helpful to prove that
the call lasted more than one minute. They requested the phone records
for that particular month and year but they haven't arrived yet. The
phone co. has not been very helpful and I suspect they'll send
something other then what my relative wants.

If you are talking about a normal land line flat rate service and not a
cell phone, then records of local calls are usually not recorded or kept
at all because there is no reason to do so since the calls are not
billable and it would cost the phone company money to record and store
such calls. Since local (free) calls make up the largest volume of all
calls, it simply would not be economical to use a large amount of
accounting resources to record and store those calls when no revenue
will result (notwithstanding special studies that do record these calls
time to time and are used for analysis of traffic patterns and other
internal purposes).

Records are kept for what would seem to be a local call if it passes
between two different phone companies even though those calls do not
show up on your bill, but that data is used for billing between the
companies and is not usually available to outside parties. In any
event, there would be no reason to keep that data long term once the
accounting was complete.

--
-Ernie-
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