In New York City, Verizon deals with an average of 2,600 requests for telephone installations and 4,500 requests for repairs each day, said Steven Marcus, a spokesman for the company.
As the strike drags on, Verizon has tried to deal with a growing number of requests for telephone service, for repair of existing service and vandalism.
At the Liberal Democrat party conference in September, a vote called for "to protect responsible journalism, and ensuring greater protection for legally privileged and journalistic material from requests for telephone and other records".
And he also quoted directly from the new report: Cessation of the program would eliminate the privacy and civil liberties concerns associated with bulk collection without unduly hampering the government's efforts, while ensuring that any governmental requests for telephone calling records are tailored to the needs of specific investigations.
These include the reliability of the supply available (determined by the number of interruptions suffered and the duration of any interruptions), the technical characteristics of the supply and their variability (voltage levels, frequency, and harmonics), and customer service (e.g., the timeliness and responsiveness of the supplier to requests for telephone assistance and the accuracy of billing).
Mr. McAuliffe and other Democrats said they were particularly distressed that Representative Steve Buyer, Republican of Indiana, had sent an urgent request to the Pentagon asking for telephone numbers or e-mail addresses of sailors, including some whose absentee ballots had been disqualified.
In the interest of having Reinsdorf, the most militant of owners, explain how his poorly paid White Sox could outplay far wealthier teams, a telephone call was placed to his office in Chicago yesterday and then a request for a telephone interview was placed with the team's public relations department.
Nancy Heigl declined a request for a telephone interview.
After 10 minutes on hold, I had a circular conversation with someone which ended with a request for my telephone banking PIN.
What's wrong with Bell Atlantic?" Correction: November 12, 2000, Sunday An article last Sunday about Verizon's request for a telephone rate increase misspelled the surname of a spokeswoman for the company in some references.
