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BT Broadband & gmail help

I have BT broadband with a btopenworld.com email address. I've got myself a gmail and I wondered if, when I stopped my bt email address I would still get bt broadband.

I'm looking to eventually leave BT as my area is not in the Infinity pipeline !

Thanks

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  • JJ_Egan
    JJ_Egan Posts: 20,281 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Your BT email will remain until you terminate your BT broadband .
    Its best to keep the email until such time as you get no more messages on it .Or delete the account from your PC and just log in every week or so via web mail .
  • Renee
    Renee Posts: 405 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Thanks for replying so quickly.
  • You can keep your bt email address if you pay £1.60 per month by direct debit.
    If you pay by manual debit transfer you will be charged a £2 processing fee in addition to the £1.60.
  • grumpycrab
    grumpycrab Posts: 5,042 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Bake Off Boss!
    On a related note (you may know this already) but you can add non-gmail email addresses (e.g. btopenworld.com) to gmail so you can see all your email in one place.
  • P.S please help BT they need your money to pay for the £1 billion football channel that they skillfully negotiated.
    If you do find any football matches that are worth watching on BT Sport please let me know.
  • Renee
    Renee Posts: 405 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    grumpycrab & cynicalgit

    Thank you to you both
  • WTFH
    WTFH Posts: 2,266 Forumite
    As long as you have BT broadband, you still have your BT email address. No need to pay anything extra. You can set up as many other email addresses as you like, BT don't care. Your BT email address is free with your BT broadband.

    If you leave BT, then the BT email address will go too, unless you pay for it. But remember, unless you switch to Virgin, if BT can't offer you infinity, nobody else will be able to offer you a fast package either.
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