BT.Yahoo EMAIL FEE £1.50 per month

macman

Why do you think BT should continue to service a yahoo email address FOC if you are no longer a customer of theirs?
You've had 3 years free access in the meantime.

fck

macman

No one has said that BT should continue to service a yahoo email address FOC if you are no longer a customer of theirs?

"You've had 3 years free access in the meantime."
The above statement clearly shows you have discovered the date on which BT policy came into force for charging non bt broadband customers, please show the link or cut n paste here.

"Nevertheless, regardless of how long this has been bts policy, I belive that BT blocking access to addys without prior notification then demand a payment of £1.50 be paid prior to unblocking addys, unacceptable."

PhylPho

macman wrote: »

Why do you think BT should continue to service a yahoo email address FOC if you are no longer a customer of theirs?
You've had 3 years free access in the meantime.

I've no idea if your post is meant to be addressing mine or not.

The topic here isn't the rights / wrongs of charging for a service. The issue is the rights / wrongs of informing a user of an intention to charge for that service.

BT has given me no notice of intention to charge for a service it currently provides free.

I would expect it to do so.

mrtom21

When it comes to email addresses, I do not consider it a right to be notified if mine is being turned off or becoming chargeable. It isn't exactly like running water or the right to a fair trial. My advice would be if you really need that email address then pay it for a month or so until you can migrate everything to a new email... Or just let it close and move on.

fck

Mrtom21 wrote
"When it comes to email addresses, I do not consider it a right to be notified if mine is being turned off or becoming chargeable."

Mrtom21
I think you are in a minority, and clearly someone who doesnt conduct home economics via email. IE; Banking, Insurance renewell reminders, paperless billing ( including BT) Home insurance,etc etc

Mrtom21 wrote
"It isn't exactly like running water or the right to a fair trial."
Ridiculous comparasion.

Mrtom21 wrote
"My advice would be if you really need that email address then pay it for a month or so until you can migrate everything to a new email."

The email address is superficial. Had BT given me reasonably notice of intention to charge for a service it provided free I could have migrated everything to a new email, as no notice was given I was left with no choice, loose all my emails or pay £1.50.

spenderdave

When you leave BT you will lose any email addresses you had with that account when you were a customer unless you pay them this fee to keep it active. I don't understand what you find difficult about that - you are no longer one of their customers....

Inactive

Why do people continue to use ISP provided email addresses?...

Free one's work exactly the same.

PhylPho

I do wish those with the capacity to state the blindingly obvious also had a similar capacity to read and so spare everyone else the time and trouble of putting the record straight.

I migrated from btinternet.com in 2007. At the time of migration there was not, so far as I am aware, any stipulation by the ISP of a 90-day grace period, after which the email service it provided would become chargeable.

Subsequent to my change of ISP, BT has not communicated with me at all.

So I don't know if the stipulation actually applied in 2007. Or if BT has introduced it since then.

Absent any such communication, I am still receiving, free of charge, that mail service.

The first that I have learned of the monthly charge is here, on a user forum with no connection at all to BT.

Like fck, therefore, I have no issue with BT other than an expectation that BT will, if and when it chooses, notify me of the fact that its currently free mail service is to become chargeable.

At which point I'll cease to use it because I have plenty of other email addresses.

Thank you then, spenderdave, for saying that BT is charging non-BT customers for a service provided free to BT customers.

As both myself and fck already know this, the only value your post could have is if you were an official representative of BT and contacting me / fck directly about my / our personal arrangements with it at this time.

As you're not, then what I actually "find difficult" is why you've posted.

Sam_G_3

£1.50/month for email is a rip-off. You could buy your own domain name (i.e. myemail@mydomain.co.uk) for say £7.00 for 2 years which works out at about 29p/month and get someone like Google Mail to host your emails for free!

PhylPho

Sam_G wrote: »

£1.50/month for email is a rip-off. You could buy your own domain name (i.e. [EMAIL="myemail@mydomain.co.uk"]myemail@mydomain.co.uk[/EMAIL]) for say £7.00 for 2 years which works out at about 29p/month and get someone like Google Mail to host your emails for free!

BT, in its entirety, is a rip-off. And in light of the Phorm 'adventure', one of the sleaziest of 'em all.

I wouldn't pay 'em a penny for their email service.

But I'll continue to use it for nowt until BT tells me I can't.