i've had an email address with btinternet since the late 90s and as yahoo took over the running of it, when i changed from dialup to broadband many years ago i could keep the account by choosing a PAYG dialup account and dialing in once in a blue moon. they then scrapped the PAYG and just let people use the email addresses for free because of yahoo that provide free email. a couple of years ago maybe, they forced people to pay £1.60 a month to retain the email addresses, which i wasn't happy with on principle considering it's never been a great service and gmail and others do better, but £1.60 a month was pretty insignicicant. they've emailed yesterday to say it's changing so it's now going up to £5 a month, which is £60 a year, and not so insignificant. i don't pay as much as that for a domain i have. they say you can save money by joining BT, which is perhaps part of what they are trying to do, but i have the top virgin package and bt is miles slower, and i don't have a phoneline so that's not a good option
i was wondering if anyone else was in the same situation and knew any alternatives as i'd rather not have the hassle of losing my main email address. alternately if anyone who has recently changed main email address after a long time and has suggestions on how to do it successfully. the main potential issues are more than i will have accounts with various stores and websites etc to that address and trying change them all without forgetting anything may be a problem. i can't password reset if i can't access the email address for example. i don't "email" so much so shouldn't lose any personal emails. i use my email in the old school way and download via pop3 so won't lose any previously received emails, so not being able to access the cloud storage isn't a problem. it's really just keeping the address
i pay £5 or £6 to three/3 each month for 3g broadband for my ipad and i think that gives email addresses, so to pay £5 just for email acccess when most emails are mailshots and advertising, seems a bit much for personal email


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