Location Transport

Can Verizon really track your cell phones to find your location?

I'm in college and I went to go visit my boyfriend three hour car drive away. My parents found out and they said they saw it on my phone bill - that I was in another city during that time. Is that even possible, to see which city I'm making the cell phone call from? Is it possible to see it on the phone bill? But it also might be because maybe they looked at my text messages. Is it possible for Verizon to put all the text messages on the phone bill?

Public Comments

1. The main answer : Yes. When you go to a different city outside your calling area you will recieve roaming charges for how ever many calls you made in that area, along with how long you've been in that are. Texts are recorded in to a large record database, they can be handed out to any customer of Verizon (or any phone company) with a simple call.
2. man i m telling u thats too easy about the texts i dont think they do it but if they want to do it they can
3. Here is the truth. The answers are "NO' they cannot see your text messages without a court ordered supeona and no they cannot get your location without downloading the parent or child Chaperone application in duplicate on the cell phones used to track and be tracked. They cannot run the chaperone program without your phone having it and it doesn't happen without your knowledge. There is a big green picture of it in your download list if you have it. Do you know how they still managed to find out? Without all of that..... They are the account holders. They cannot figure out who calls who, but they can check the incoming or outgoing call lists to display what cell towers they were connected to. If I made a call 5 minutes from Buffalo NY and told them i was in Medina NY which is 40 minutes in the other direction - The cell tower to pick up the signal will be the one thats only 5 minutes away! It will show up as Buffalo, and essentially the phrase is now 'busted'. They can get the towers to list online with pretty accurate results within 1-2 towns. i guarantee you passed through more than one or two towns on a 3 hour drive. So now you know. P.S. They can look this up but you can't. Only the account holder's have acess to this portion of the site. For everyone else as a side note "NO" They can't give out text messages to any Verizon caller 'simply by calling.' It's not true and actually illegal. Without A court ordered supeona it will be pointless to try to ask. Verizon does not carry everything in the data base and with over 80 million customers, They dont have time to. They only research the info when ordered by the court system. Good luck