@用心棒 wrote:
@adrianjacobs wrote:
I think ofcom said it costs about 2-3p a month for a large ISP to operate an individuals email account.
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I would be interested in reading that Ofcom article mentioning these costs, are you able to provide the source?
@adrianjacobs wrote:
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Maybe people like to keep ISP email addresses because people they've corresponded with over the past 25 years might want to use it. And VM are clearly in the minority when it comes to doing what customers want re retaining email addresses. Sounds like you're happy receiving the lowest level of service in the business. …
This BBC Money Box article from February 2020, Email address charges branded 'daylight robbery', concluding comment echo's that of the good advice already offered:
"However, my advice would be to prevent this being a problem in future by taking the hit now. Set up a web-based email address from a reputable provider, such as Microsoft's Outlook or Google's Gmail, start using that instead and gradually move your logins for the services you use across to it."
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I think it was a BBC Radio 4 Money Box broadcast that I heard it on, about year or so ago (or maybe longer actually, possibly pre covid). Probably the episode you've quoted above. It was a very small, and affordable, figure, if implemented and charged, and some ISPs don't charge at all.
I will indeed be moving my emails across to another email account but this is a major exercise not only to tell everyone that corresponds with me now and in the past and hopign that they'll actually take notice and action it, but also all those hundreds of online accounts (banks accounts, game accounts, utilities, parking apps, etc, etc, etc). that use your email address as your username/login name. it's similar to VM customer support saying "I've just made some setting changes to your wifi so that it'll work better" without telling you that you now have to go off and reset all the devices (smart plugs, bulbs, TVs, Alexa's, security cameras, doorbells, phones, tablets, pcs and all your friends' and relatives' that visit and use your wifi devices) so they work with the "newly separated" 2.4ghz and 5ghz channels.
