Cell phone companies refused to answer Congress' questions on whether or not they provided private subscriber call data to the government citing objections from the White House and claiming "state secrets" privileges. State Secrets? WTF is this, Russia in 1973?
Verizon is the only company that has not provided information and claims to the government that they don't even keep that sort of data. Everybody else just rolled over and let the government invade your right to privacy.
The advertisement slogans may say, "It's the New AT&T" but it's really the same old bullshit.
Verizon offers details on records releases
Verizon Communications says it has provided federal, state and local law enforcement agencies tens of thousands of communication and business records relating to customers based on emergency requests without a court order or administrative subpoena.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/16/verizon.records/index.html