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MSE News: BT triples monthly fee for paid email service

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Thousands of former BT broadband customers face a steep email price hike, with the monthly cost tripling...
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  • Pincher
    Pincher Posts: 6,552 Forumite
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    Waitrose.com JustMail is still £1.69 a month.


    Long may it stay that way.


    Funny thing is, I stopped using [EMAIL="xxxxxxx@tiscali.co.uk"]xxxxxxx@tiscali.co.uk[/EMAIL] for fear of it being pulled from under me, but Talktalk is still keeping it alive, for FREE! Tiscali itself must have disappeared ten years ago.




    What we really need is a re-direction service, which must be dirt cheap to provide.
  • glider3560
    glider3560 Posts: 4,115 Forumite
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    If you have the technical knowhow, I'd strongly suggest getting your own domain name. I've owned <myfirstname><mysurname>.com for about 7 years. These days, there are plenty more TLDs (instead of .com) to choose from, e.g. .family.

    The actual email backend can be changed very easily - I currently use GMail, but previously used a different service.

    Also gets you some interesting looks and comments when handing out this email address!

    Cost to me is less than £7 per year.
  • Pincher
    Pincher Posts: 6,552 Forumite
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    I'm not into cherished number plates.


    The fun drains away pretty quick after you have to correct people a thousand times because they can't get


    [EMAIL="Jeffrey.archer&#64;jeffrey.archer.co.uk"]Jeffrey.archer@jeffrey.archer.co.uk[/EMAIL]


    right.


    I am very happy with my current [EMAIL="xxxxx&#64;yyyyy.zzz"]xxxxx@yyyyy.zzz[/EMAIL] address.
    People don't lose the will to live half way through typing it in.


    I hated [EMAIL="xxxxx&#64;virginmedia.com"]xxxxx@virginmedia.com[/EMAIL] . Far too long.


    [EMAIL="xxxxx&#64;btinternet.com"]xxxxx@btinternet.com[/EMAIL] isn't any better.


    If they let us have [EMAIL="xxxxx&#64;bt.net"]xxxxx@bt.net[/EMAIL] , I think I might even pay for it. Well, I already pay, since I have BT Infinity.
  • J_B
    J_B Posts: 6,806 Forumite
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    Pincher wrote: »
    Funny thing is, I stopped using [EMAIL="xxxxxxx&#64;tiscali.co.uk"]xxxxxxx@tiscali.co.uk[/EMAIL] for fear of it being pulled from under me, but Talktalk is still keeping it alive, for FREE! .

    I still have two xxxx@onetel.com addresses that still work - does onetel still exist?
  • Pincher
    Pincher Posts: 6,552 Forumite
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    The nostalgia......


    Compuserve, those were the days.
  • chattychappy
    chattychappy Posts: 7,302 Forumite
    cix/compulink anyone?
  • minislim
    minislim Posts: 357 Forumite
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    just another fine example of how much BT are rip off merchants!
  • kwikbreaks
    kwikbreaks Posts: 9,187 Forumite
    MSE are bit slow off the blocks on this one. There has beed a thread running on it for well over a month already.

    My guess is that BT are hoping everybody will just do the sensible thing and get an alternate email address so they can close the service down.
  • KTF
    KTF Posts: 4,848 Forumite
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    Why do people still have ISP email addresses rather than gmail, etc?
  • matelodave
    matelodave Posts: 9,076 Forumite
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    KTF wrote: »
    Why do people still have ISP email addresses rather than gmail, etc?

    I'm asking the very same question. I'm a hotmail.com person and have been for 15 years through four or five different service providers and moving house as well.

    No hassle, no remembering to notify everyone when you change and no fees either. There are plenty out there, why pay?
    Never under estimate the power of stupid people in large numbers
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