Hi Vikki, so if I sign up to a virgin media service I can keep my old virgin.net email address? What is the cheapest service you offer?
Davidjh1 wrote:Hi Vikki, so if I sign up to a virgin media service I can keep my old virgin.net email address? What is the cheapest service you offer?
Doing that would be one extremely wild leap of faith in VM.
Look at the recent history of VM's management of its email service.
New customers cannot create any VM email addresses. Existing customers cannot add any email addresses.
Followed by VM starts demanding that all customers with a VM email address create a third party address to run alongside it.
At the same time VM had been deleting orphaned email addresses with no warning to the user.
The most recent change is that VM has started giving 30 days' notice of deletion while doubling down on the removal process.
Even if you signed up to a VM package and did manage to associate your .net email address with the package (and that's a big 'if') what is to say in another 6 months' time that VM informs you that it is ending its email service altogether (most likely under the guise of the fact that user numbers have become so small that it is not justifiable to keep it going and, conveniently, all users by that time will have an alternative email address set up and waiting)? You'd be locked into an 18 month minimum term and still end up losing your .net email address anyway.
