Keeping e-mail address when moving Inernet provider

rose28454

I am moving my broadband and home phone from Talk Talk back to BT. When I moved to Talk Talk from AOL I kept my e-mail addresses. Would I be able to keep my Talk Talk ones when I move provider?

aerostar

Set up a Gmail account, and then move all your contacts to that e-mail address, that way when you move providers again you will not need to change anything.

JJ_Egan

NO

But you may well find that you can still access it as the ISP does not turn it off . But they may at any time as you dont own it and are not paying for it .
I still have a 1998 account open and a Tiscali account open despite no longer using these ISPs but i also lost two accounts after swapping ISP .

jje

spannerzone

aerostar wrote: »

Set up a Gmail account, and then move all your contacts to that e-mail address, that way when you move providers again you will not need to change anything.

Agreed, ditch email that an ISP provides and use an email that won't change as you change your ISP, plus you can access the Gmail / GMX mail from any PC in the world.

Personally I'd avoid Hotmail these days... Gmail and GMX work well for me.

steveE2

aerostar wrote: »

Set up a Gmail account, and then move all your contacts to that e-mail address, that way when you move providers again you will not need to change anything.

This is something I have done and recommend.
I have also registered a domain name ie stevee2.co.uk(just over £7 for 2 years) and have mail forwarding from [EMAIL="me@stevee2.co.uk"]me at stevee2.co.uk[/EMAIL] to my gmail and other accounts and can send/receive so it appears to come from [EMAIL="me@stevee2.co.uk"]me at stevee2.co.uk[/EMAIL]

rose28454

aerostar wrote: »

Set up a Gmail account, and then move all your contacts to that e-mail address, that way when you move providers again you will not need to change anything.

I did as suggested and set up a gmail account. I asked it to pull across my contacts but instead it has pulled across all my e-mail and now it is not coming up on my iphone. I do want it to do this when I switch in 2 weeks but no quite yet. Any ideas how to undo for now?