Mobile phone users concerned that David Beckham's much publicised troubles mean their text messages are not safe from prying eyes can stop worrying, say experts.

On 4 April the News of the World published a story about Beckham's private life and partly based its allegations on phone text messages.

The story has been rejected as "ludicrous" by Beckham.

The group representing the mobile phone industry and SMS experts said it would be practically impossible to spy on text messages by eavesdropping.

"We are unaware of any particular eavesdropping methods that exist for text messages," said a spokesman for the GSM Association which acts as the industry voice for the most widely used mobile phone technology.

He said the industry association understood that the text messages in the story were simply handed to the News of the World by a "friend" of the woman at the centre of the allegations.

"We are not sure that any journalist could eavesdrop on text messages," he said.

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Is it possible to hack into SMS systems or the cell phone company main frame computer or the phone itself to read the messages?

If somethings stored on a computer it can be stolen, if the messages can be recieved by the phone then is must be possible for someone to intercept them and read. Wont be easy but the tech. and expertise is out there.