keeping btinternet email address when moving to sky broadband

aah

Hi friends

Question in the title really

We have btinternet broadband - its ok, a little pricey but I am attracted by sky for a few reasons

• I need decent tv reception in the conservatory and the sky box will provide this

• If I buy sky tv can get broadband for free / cheap and calls included

It seems a no brainer but my OH has a very longstanding btinternet email address - [EMAIL="xxxxxxx@btinternet.com"]xxxxxxx@btinternet.com[/EMAIL]. If we did not have btinternet as our provider would he be able to keep this address, apparently its something to do with Yahoo.

Your help will be most welcome, as ever, and many thanks

A.

penrhyn

Sky 'free' broadband is not really worth having if you do much more than check your emails from time to time, it has a 2Gb cap, which if exceeded will result in you being moved to the unlimited package @£12.50/month (less£5 with Sky Talk).

Its lightly that you will lose your BT email address after you cease subscribing, some have reported having to pay a nominal fee to maintain it.
Much better to get a ISP independent email account from Gmail or similar.
eg aah@gmail.com
BTW Sky use Google as their email provider and you can keep the Sky email account for life even if you stop subscribing.
e.g. aah@sky.com

Coopdivi

With regards to the bt email address, have a read of this thread.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2573575

PlutoinCapricorn

You can pay BT around £1.50 per month for the Premium service to keep the address, or you can hope to get lucky: I know people who have moved away from BT, expected to lose their email address but so far nothing has happened.

This is living dangerously, as it could disappear at any minute.
I googled this topic a few times, and found that people do not receive consistent treatment from BT.

walesrob

PlutoinCapricorn wrote: »

I know people who have moved away from BT, expected to lose their email address but so far nothing has happened.

I left BT broadband 1 year ago, and my BTInternet email address is still functioning. I even have an Pipex email address still active even though I cancelled the Pipex broadband in 2006.

Its a good idea, as others have said, to get an email address seperate from your broadband provider such as Gmail, Yahoo, etc. Even better, get your own domain and your very own email address that never expires (unless you forget to renew the domain).