MSE News: BT to charge some £7.50/mth for email - here's how to beat the hikes
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Telecoms giant BT is set to charge customers who have ditched its broadband, but want to keep their BT email address, a whopping £90 a year from next month - here's how you can beat the charges...
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Are these people for real? What a massive sense of entitlement! Just to be clear, they were given an e-mail account as part of their subscription to BT Broadband. They then switched their broadband to another supplier, but expected BT to continue to provide services to them for free. They then accepted that they would have to pay a fee, but are moaning about BT choosing to give them notice of their intention to increase that fee. They are not being, "bullied"; they are provided with a service and are free to leave to another provider if they don't like the price (there are many alternative options). They are not being, "blackmailed"; blackmail is where someone tries to coerce another person into doing something they do not wish to do in return for not revealing comprising information about them: BT aren't doing this. They don't have anyone, "over a barrel"; customers are perfectly free to move to an alternative service.
This kind of comment (and MSE's giving oxygen to it) damages our society, by encouraging the view that everyone is a victim of companies and that we all have a right to whatever we want. It is part of a wider problem (again often encouraged by MSE) that fails to accept personal responsibility amongst citizens and consumers. It also undermines those who genuinely are the victims of injustice, whether great or small.
It really is quite depressing to read this kind of thing.
This news report would have been perfectly valid and informative without the inclusion of those moaning and whining entitled comments.
Quite right, they are separate, and completely unrelated, so why mention this here, other than to pursue the highly dubious, and horridly tabloid editorial line that has become the norm on this site, that companies are evil and out to do harm to consumers (unless of course that company is First Direct who are wonderful, apparently)?
Is there any chance that MSE might like to consider raising the standard of its tawdry journalism?
Of course most if not all of these are not Journalists in any shape or form just headline grab your attention editors .
Probably none at all got to get the mouseclicks in somehow
Sadly, I fear that you are right.
The biggest challenge can be to get BT Premium mail set up when you leave them - as they don't make it easy!
Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them.
BT still thinks it owns the telecommunications network. It's doesn't.
The more I learn, the more I grow.
The more I grow, the more I see.
The more I see, the more I know.
The more I know, the more I see,
How little I know.!!
So what? Nobody is forcing them to take the service. BT have every right to charge whatever they want and the customer has every right to say, "No thanks, I'm going to move to a free Gmail account." They can forward any e-mails they want to their new account and change their e-mail address with the companies who use it. Doing so should take them an hour or so, at most.
First world problems of the entitled population of the UK.
Yes, how dare a company charge for the service it is providing. (What a shame that the :rolleyes: emoji is not supported on this forum).
Your second paragraph is a non sequitur.
That is an excellent post sir, if I could have given two thanks I would have done.
I've just highlighted the points that I've believed for a long time now, namely that too many people consider themselves a victim and that any responsibility (even for their own actions) lies elsewhere (Police, Government, School, take your pick).