PBONO99 wrote:I am going through a divorce and want to get access of text content between my soon to be ex and his lover. I got a supoena and sent it to AT&T, but havent heard back yet.
Someone just told me that AT&T does not keep the actual messages on file and they can only give me date, time and number. (Which I already have).
The texts were sent from last summer till up until february 2014.
Can anyone advise?
Thanks!
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I don't think that you mailing them a subpoena is gonna cut it. A subpoena has to be "served" by a process server or court officer.
I'll repost what I found for another person a few days ago.
It might be possible in real-time to capture and retain the message content (with a "tap", legal or not) and there's always the phone itself, if your ex was not smart enough to erase them from the phones memory, but from what I've read (which I'll admit is a few years old), Virgin Mobile is the only company that retains text message content for longer than a few days.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2393887,00.asp
http://www.pcmag.com/image_popup/0,1740,iid=313504,00.asp