DogDad, maybe you can answer this... Last year we were in a position that we had to have phone records pulled. The request was sent and we were informed they had been purged. We were then informed they had to contact someone in "purged records". They did a second pull of records at that point. This was a difficult data pull through archives, but eventually, the purged records were located. (this took over 5 months) What would be the difference in this case? Also, when determining the carrier for the cell phone, keep in mind any cell phone can have any carrier. We all have different phones that are not specific to any carrier because we purchased them privately "unlocked". This makes them able to be used with any cell phone carrier. This makes it harder to "guess" which cell carrier dumped their records. We have Tmobile, but none of our phones are tmobile, but they have all been unlocked to use with any carrier.