"The U.S. government cannot compel us to produce our customers' data stored in data centres outside the U.S., and if it attempts to do so, we would challenge that attempt in a court."
Except that it would happen in a secret FISA court, and it's likely Verizon wouldn't be allowed to reveal the status or outcome of that trial.
Vodafone acknowledge that management and legal have no idea what these secret requests are and what pressure is placed employees who push back on governments requests when they violate their internal code of conduct, "Obligations on individual employees managing agency and authority demands" http://www.vodafone.com/content/sustainabilityreport/2014/in...
Vodafone uses Amdocs in many of their national operations... see discussion in other threads beneath this post. In short, Amdocs stuff is assumed to be always-on metadata access rather than by-request content level.
Except that it would happen in a secret FISA court, and it's likely Verizon wouldn't be allowed to reveal the status or outcome of that trial.