Abstract: A system and Method for confirming Short Message Service (SMS) reception in a mobile communication terminal. Specifically, the system and method informs a calling party of a message failure state in the case where a called party is not within a call connection area or the mobile communication terminal of the called party is powered off, thereby enhancing the calling party's convenience. The system and method for confirming a SMS message reception in a first mobile communication terminal adapted to transmit a SMS message to a second mobile communication terminal.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for retrieving a deleted short message in a mobile telecommunication terminal. The mobile telecommunication terminal has an additional data area, for indicating whether or not the deleted message is retrievable, in a start address region of each short message storage block within a memory. If a user demands for retrieval of a message, data in the data area identifying retrievability of the message retrieves only the short message retrievable upon the user's demand by referring to the data identifying whether or not the message in a message storage block is retrievable.