How do you get a FREE BT Internet email address?

Jo4

How do you get a free BT Internet emaill address? The link I had saved to my favorites is saying it costs £1.50. Can anyone provide the free link, please?

Also Dad is still paying for dial up with BT but has got broadband. He wants to cancel his dial up but he will lose his primary email address, is there any way he can keep it? This is the reason I want the new emaill address, it is for Dad.

dickibobboy

use something like https://www.gmail.com

If you want to keep it ring them and tell them that the email address needs to be part of his broadband when you cancel dial-up. If you want to keep it and they wont let you move it to the broadband account it is something like £1.50 every so on.

Jo4

dickibobboy wrote: »

use something like www.gmail.com

If you want to keep it ring them and tell them that the email address needs to be part of his broadband when you cancel dial-up. If you want to keep it and they wont let you move it to the broadband account it is something like £1.50 every so on.

His broadband is not with BT. He just wants a basic email account with BT as he is used to typing in is address as username@btinternet.com.

dickibobboy

Then to keep his email address as it is. He will have to pay for it.

Browntoa

not strictly true....downgrade the account to PAYG, then dial in every 60 days to check emails via Btinternets servers

5p every 60 days !!

Jo4

dickibobboy wrote: »

Then to keep his email address as it is. He will have to pay for it.

Since it seems he can not keep it without paying £15.99 a month, I want to get an email address like, [EMAIL="username@btinternet.com"]username@btinternet.com[/EMAIL] for him, how can I get one of these email addresses for him?

dickibobboy

See the post above. Or pay the £1.50 every so on.. I didn't mean pay the full £15.99 a month

Jo4

Browntoa wrote: »

not strictly true....downgrade the account to PAYG, then dial in every 60 days to check emails via Btinternets servers

5p every 60 days !!

Is it as straight forward as it sounds? I could dial in on his behalf every 60 days but could he still use this email address on broadband?

superscaper

Jo4 wrote: »

[EMAIL="username@btinternet.com"]username@btinternet.com[/EMAIL] for him, how can I get one of these email addresses for him?

Why? You could get a gmail/yahoo/hotmail account for free and it's independant of your ISP.

Jo4

dickibobboy wrote: »

See the post above. Or pay the £1.50 every so on.. I didn't mean pay the full £15.99 a month

Thanks for clarifying that.

Jo4

superscaper wrote: »

Why? You could get a gmail/yahoo/hotmail account for free and it's independant of your ISP.

It would be easier for Dad to remember.