According to DN, DB's father, her phone was "malfunctioning" ie: the speaker and microphone were working intermittently. So her phone was technically working, it was just a problem hearing people and people hearing her when using it. I'm assuming it was a smart phone based on the picture of Lisa and the boy's taken in the window of the door where you can clearly see DB holding a smart phone.
So DB was at her grandfather's house for the party the day before and her grandfather (not DN, her father)gave him one of his old "plain jane" phones to use. She would have had to have it connected to her plan which she would have been unable to do if the bill was not paid. So IMO, the borrowed phone, while it was a working phone, was not connected to any plan and could not make or receive calls. Both her phone and JI's phone would still have been connected to the plan but were on some kind of restricted service.
So the phone that was accessed by someone that night is said to be DB's
phone. I have no doubt it is her original "broken" phone that they are talking about. An intruder would not know about the speaker/microphone issues either. It's quite possible that they tried to make a call to MW's number, the call was redirected to the call centre, but they couldn't really hear properly...hence why they may have stayed on the line for 50 seconds
wondering what was wrong. Her grandfather's "plain jane" phone also would unlikely have been able to access the internet and would not have had DB's voicemail feature so again, I believe that it is DB's "broken" phone that was being used that night.
I still do not have an opinion if DB is involved in Lisa's disappearance but I have to say that this phone information makes me believe that someone other than her was in possession of the phones that night.
Now what would really floor me is to find out that someone who lived within that 1/3 mile radius did take the phones at some point during the evening but had nothing to do with Lisa's disappearance. Jersey is a petty theif. All of this phone information points directly to him IMO. But I just don't see him taking a baby although he did have access to an empty house on N Chelsea.
MOO