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by WaitWaitWha 1214 days ago
All TelCos in all countries have backup of the SMS messages. The key part is for how long and what details.

In the US, for example AT&T is only a couple of days; Verizon, 3-10 days for SMS contents. Everything else like subscriber info, call history, tower location, tower dumps, range-to-tower can be years.

In EU similar patchwork.

(source: me half century in field)