Email Question

[mayennaise]

We run a small community centre and currently BT supply the phone and broadband. They consider it to be a 'business' therefore we have to have a 'business package' for phone and broadband. The majority of the monthly cost is for broadband that we don't use so we are thinking of ditching the internet' leaving us with just the phone line (would get rid of that as well but need it for the alarm!!) My question is - would I still be able to access the BT email address if we ditch the BT broadband?

[squarebear]

If you have no internet, you have no email. People could stil mail to it but you would have to access it from home.

[mayennaise]

Thats all I wanted to know. We won't lose the email address then if we ditch the broadband supplier.

[Old_Geezer]

I doubt if BT would allow you to retain an e-mail if you are no longer paying them for a service. Were it an independent e-mail supplier, that might be a different matter. But you could ask BT I suppose.

[squarebear]

There is that chance but I still have a BT address eve though I haven't used them for years. I would be tempted to set up a gmail or hotmail email account just in case.

[rockyracoon]

I've still got an active AOL email account and I've not been with them for about 7 years. Ask BT, if they say you can't keep it then get a hotmail, gmail account.

[mayennaise]

Cos its a business email address it would cause allsorts of problems if we couldn't continue to use it - need to weigh up the pros and cons by the looks of it.

[shoota]

If you use the internet rarely at work could you ditch broad band and go with a pay-as-you-go dial up service that you could use occsionally thus keeping the address?

[Maydup]

If you have [email protected] address you can access it via the internet. Clearly you need a broadband connection to access the internet but one of you could do this from home.

Go to http://uk.yahoo.com and sign in with the email address and the usual password for that account. However there is a possibility that once you stop paying for the connection, the email account will cease to be accessible too.

[Ellipsis]

"The Internet" is more than just "the World Wide Web". "The Internet" includes your email. If you got rid of broadband (i.e. "ditching the internet") you would not only lose your email address, you'd lose the ability to pick up any email from anybody.

Of course, you could replace broadband with something else such as a pay-as-you-go mobile data service. This could work out cheaper if you only had low data requirements.

[Maydup]

Alternatively could you meke more use of the internet connection in the community centre? eg charge people to use the wifi when they drop in for an activity? You'd need to get someone to set up password protections and time outs but it would be a positive way forward and a bit of a fundraiser.

Seems a shame to ditch the internet in this day and age.

[vivandorron]

BT is your Internet Service Provider and if you ditch it's Broadband you will loose it's E/mail facilities.. ....You can't change home and keep the same address.

Ron.

[wildwood]

Not sure about BT but some ISPs are allowing you to retain your webmail account after severing their service. maybe limiting the attachment size.

The benefit for them is obvious. The first time you have a problem with your new service you'll be tempted to go back to the old one.
Whatever, recipients of your mail will get your mail with your old email address so this alone is a valuable avenue of advertising.