Aol

TrishUK

I'm getting connected with a Virgin phone and TV but AOL is my Internet service provider. I currently pay 9.99 a month for AOL and will be paying 32.99 for my Virgin TV and home phone package. I'm reluctant to leave AOL as i've been with them for years. Can anyone tell me how reliable Virgin Broadband is and whether it is worth me getting rid of AOL? One of the reasons i don't want to get rid of AOL is because i want to keep my current email address.

ormus

120 quid a year is a lot of money just to keep an email address.

keith969

Switch to a google mail address and you can keep it whatever your ISP.

Or register your own domain name - that's what I did ten years ago. A friend hosts it for free and it just costs a few quid every couple of years to renew the domain name.

ormus

ive had the same yahoo addy through about 3 changes of ISP.
with O2 now, and ive no idea what my O2 email addy is or my login PW.
havent used em since the day i signed up. about 18 months ago now.

hermanmunster_3

I left AOL for sky and kept my e-mail address - no problem.

However I found that using googlemail was more flexible -and I can still keep my aol address with that.

ormus

i thought you could only keep it open for 6 months?

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hermanmunster_3

ormus wrote: »

i thought you could only keep it open for 6 months?

I've been with Sky BB for about 4 years and still have aol address.

spud17

Can anyone tell me how reliable Virgin Broadband is and whether it is worth me getting rid of AOL?

One small glitch for a few hours in 3 years, I've had good service with Virgin Media, and a steady 9.7/9.8 Mbps, for £9/mth.

Francesanne

TrishUK wrote: »

I'm getting connected with a Virgin phone and TV but AOL is my Internet service provider. I currently pay 9.99 a month for AOL and will be paying 32.99 for my Virgin TV and home phone package. I'm reluctant to leave AOL as i've been with them for years. Can anyone tell me how reliable Virgin Broadband is and whether it is worth me getting rid of AOL? One of the reasons i don't want to get rid of AOL is because i want to keep my current email address.

You can leave AOL (which we've just done) and keep your AOL email address. We only moved to SKY today and I've been using my AOL email this evening. Also had it confirmed by AOL customer services. Different lay out but actually prefer it.

Francesanne

ormus wrote: »

i thought you could only keep it open for 6 months?

That's not correct. AOL confirmed you can use it for as long as you like.