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Here's How Long Cellphone Companies Store Your Call Records If the Senate approves the USA Freedom Act, your provider would hold the key to your call logs. By Steven Nelson, Staff Writer | May 22, 2015, at 2:00 p.m. An internal Justice Department document that the ACLU obtained through the Freedom of Information Act shows that, as of 2010, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint did not store the contents of text messages. Verizon did for up to five days, a change from its earlier no-logs-at-all position, and Virgin Mobile kept them for 90 days. The carriers generally kept metadata such as the phone numbers associated with the text for 90 days to 18 months; AT&T was an outlier, keeping it for as long as seven years. An e-mail message from a detective in the Baltimore County Police Department, leaked by Antisec and reproduced in a 2011 Wired article, says that Verizon keeps text message content on their servers for 3-5 days. And: Sprint stores their text message content going back 12 days and Nextel content for 7 days. An e-mail message from a detective in the Baltimore County Police Department, leaked by Antisec and reproduced in a 2011 Wired article, says that Verizon keeps text message content on their servers for 3-5 days.. And: Sprint stores their text message content going back 12 days and Nextel content for 7 days. AT&T/Cingular do not preserve content at all. Us Cellular: 3-5 days Boost Mobile LLC: 7 days. That second set of data is from 2009. We know message information can be important so we're happy to make sure you have the best information. We keep and make available basic text message details for 90 days. You will find this information by logging into your My Verizon account. This includes who sent the message, who it was sent to, the date, and the time. How long does Verizon keep text message data? I am having difficulty getting information out of my phone company as to how long they obtain records and what records they keep in terms to text... Skip to main content deloused Aug 22, 2016 8:50 AM (in response to Supergirl1965) They retain the logs permanently, and the content for about 10 days. 2. Re: How long does Verizon keep records of text messages? viller Aug 22, 2016 10:51 PM (in response to Supergirl1965) Verizon keeps complete conversations forever. A text message is a short, typed message you send or receive on a mobile device. Text messages have a 160-character limit and can contain letters, numbers and special characters, like punctuation marks. They may also include links and emoticons. Verizon ONLY stores your content of your text messages for 5 days to ensure delivery of the messages if you are in a weak signal area. Obviously the writer of this didn't bother to do much research on these areas. Another reason a lot of this information is stored is for technical support purposes. Posted on March 21, 2013 at 1:17 PM • 20 Comments. 1  Two clicks for more privacy: The Facebook Like button will be enabled once you click here. 2  Two clicks for more privacy: The Tweet this button will be enabled once you click here. 3  Two clicks for more privacy: The Google+ button will be enabled once you click here. If she wants the content of your text messages she's going to have jump through a shit ton of hoops to get it, and Verizon may not be interested in jumping through those hoops (due to time and effort involved) unless a court tells them that they have to do so. Query: how long verizon stores text messages
Verizon stores text messages for 3 to 5 days.