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"AT&T Wireless spokesman Mark Siegel said the company cooperates with law enforcement officials for investigations but refused to discuss its policies on storing text messages.
The company's Web site said messages not immediately delivered are held for 72 hours for more delivery attempts -- then deleted. How messages in the Bryant case would be available four months later isn't known; most likely they were retrieved from an archival storage system.
"It's just a common practice," said Kagan, the telecoms analyst. "I don't know an instance where they delete them."
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/06/07/t...s.ap/index.html
The company's Web site said messages not immediately delivered are held for 72 hours for more delivery attempts -- then deleted. How messages in the Bryant case would be available four months later isn't known; most likely they were retrieved from an archival storage system.
"It's just a common practice," said Kagan, the telecoms analyst. "I don't know an instance where they delete them."
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/06/07/t...s.ap/index.html