"This is false." No business unit provided information, Verizon said. However, the company did not address the issue of whether MCI, which it recently absorbed through merger, provided data. Verizon also denied that it tracked local calls. BellSouth made similar remarks on Monday. "Based on our review to date, we have confirmed no such contract exists and we have not provided bulk customer calling records to the NSA," the company said in a statement. The complete statement issued Monday evening reads as follows: "There has been much speculation in the last several days about the role that BellSouth may have played in efforts by the National Security Agency (NSA) and other governmental agencies to keep our nation safe. "As a result of media reports that BellSouth provided massive amounts of customer calling information under a contract with the NSA, the Company conducted an internal review to determine the facts.