A mobile radio terminal with an SMS (short message service) function transmits a short message to different destination addresses by using a short message which was previouslytransmitted to a specified destination address. The mobile radio terminal includes a memory for storing a short message transmitted to a destination address, a user interface with which a user inputs menu display request and chooses a menu, a display and a controller for controlling the mobile radio terminal. The controller reads in sequence short messages from the memory in response to the menu display request, displays the read short messages on the display, reads a user selected short message from the memory when the user selects one of the short messages by using the user interface, and temporarily stores the selected short message in a buffer. Thereafter, the controller changes the destination address of the short message stored in the buffer to another destination address, transmits the short message to the another destination address, accesses the memory to read the short message, and updates transmission time data of the short message.