by John Henderson <jhenRemoveThis@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
May 29, 2007 at 06:36 AM
Brainsludge wrote:
> My phone's SMS memory is currently full. I know that there are
> waiting SMSs for me on my SMSC, but I would like to backup
> some im****tant SMSs before I free up some memory. I use
> T-Mobile USA.
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1) how long is an SMS queued (and retried) on the SMSC before
> it is deleted?
As set on the sending phone in the message settings - often
called "validity period" or similiar. However SMSCs impose
their own upper limit that's well short of the maximum defined
in GSM 03.40 (63 weeks). In my experience, the SMSC upper
limit is always set somewhere betweeen 3 and 7 days.
> 2) if it is eventually deleted having gone undelivered, is it
> billed?
Yes, that's as certain as death and taxes are.
John
