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Just logged in my telstra email only to see this .
I see it as a deal as you always needed aN overpriced internet service from telstra to be able to get a BigPond email address
Now you can get it with a cheap prepaid SIM card
Enjoy
I feel sorry for people I know who tied themselves up with Bigpond and Optusnet. There should be a law that ISP e-mail domains must be eternal and should allow exclusive e-mail use fee-free (or near) for life.
I feel sorry for people I know who tied themselves up with Bigpond and Optusnet. There should be a law that ISP e-mail domains must be eternal and should allow exclusive e-mail use fee-free (or near) for life.
Educate yourself and you won't be tied in, I have no sympathy for people that continue to use ISP mail. We don't need more laws in this backwards country but better education.
While I agree better education is necessary I think that associated e-mails (and mobile phone numbers) play a much deeper connection to people's lives than 15 years ago. The days of simply ringing up a website to request a new password are long, long gone. E-mail access is often the only hurdle to account access, and one person can have 100s of registered accounts and thousands of formal and informal contacts.
Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo are not guaranteed to last "forever" either. If you don't own the domain, you don't own the e-mail address. How many people pay yearly fees for personal domains for the sole purpose of having perpetual e-mail accounts? Almost nobody in the grand scheme of things.
But the greatest irony of all? ICANN can disable your domains if you don't reply to a verification link within 15 days (http://itristanmedia.com/blog/2015/05/27/how-icanns-new-doma…). Since I have a lot of domains, I get domain phishing scams in my inbox every other week, so the risk of me ignoring a genuine verification link is very real and could result in the temporary loss of a critical website or e-mail address.
So my issue isn't just with ISPs but a ingrained system that puts too much faith in e-mails as a form of perpetual association.
ISPs should be allowed to offer email to home users.
We don't live in 1995 anymore.
Existing BigPond emails are being migrated to Telstra Mail. For some services the first year is free and will be paid afterwards.
Nothing on logging into my telstra.com email, were you on "Telstra Mail" or through Outlook?
Im on Outlook.
That is a terrible "deal". No value in it whatsoever! Why would you want a @bigpond.com email address in preference to an ISP-independent address you can use forever like gmail?
No value?????
You can receive support at a Telstra store.
You have a better chance receiving the desired prefix.
Some people aren't too tech savvy.
Disclaimer. I don't own a @bigpond address and do own several free ones, but I still see value. btw I can't see the exact link.
"You can receive support at a Telstra store"…that's debatable :p
hahahaah sure is.
If its a Telstra owned support you have a good chance, dealer owned, forget about it,
Some people aren't too tech savvy.
Sorry you want to put the none too tech savvy in the hands of the vampires at Telstra who are Australia's most expensive ISP known for absurdly high charges instead of a free service that has about 8 fields to fill in order to use.
Are you crazy?
Andy Penn? Is that you?
i actaully like the @telstra one
You still get both .. It's just an alias the BigPond one
Why trust Telstra at all after the Easymail debacle that left 250,000 small businesses and individuals without email despite being promised the email for LIFE.
But it's OK as they gave five weeks notice after encouraging people to advertise the email in print, whitepages and yellowpages.
http://www.abc.net.au/am/stories/s475669.htm
http://www.ausgamers.com/forums/general/thread.php/365528
Telstra dumps email users
Geoff Elliott
FEBRUARY 07, 2002
TELSTRA is to scrap a popular cut-price email service, leaving about
250,000 customers, including rural users and small businesses, without an
email address and access that was charged at the cost of a local phone call.
Telstra's "easymail" service, launched in late 1998 as a "Christmas gift to
all Australians", will be shut down on March 13.
Telstra is instead urging the low-income and small business users to sign up
for its new $5.95-a-month internet plan on the BigPond internet service.
The shutdown comes as Telstra tries to resurrect a flagging share price
through price hikes and new fees across all its product lines of mobile,
fixed line phones and the internet.
The easymail shutdown also reflects Telstra's push to abandon services that
it considers aren't making enough money.
In an email to its easymail users warning of the closure, Telstra says:
"Your easymail address will be deactivated from March 13, 2002. It is not
possible to keep this address or transfer it to another service. We are
unable to forward your emails to your new email address."
The notification added that after a review, Telstra "identified that the
easymail service is not commercially viable and existing technology is no
longer sustainable".
"We recognise that withdrawing the easymail service may cause some customers
inconvenience," Telstra said.
Yesterday, small business owners complained that Telstra was refusing to
offer a forwarding service after the closure of their easymail addresses.
Many customers said they would lose business because Telstra has only given
them three weeks' notice to change their details.
"I'm so irate," said Adele Coutts, a bed and breakfast operator in the
holiday area of the Grampians in Victoria.
"I rely on the email a lot and have advertised my email in international
publications that are in circulation for five years."
Other easymail users said while the service was limited - it offered only
email access and no internet surfing - it was cheapest they could find.
Labor communications spokesman Lindsay Tanner yesterday called on Telstra to
review its decision immediately "and to start acting in the interests of its
majority shareholder - the Australian public".
He said easymail has been invaluable for people who could not afford
internet access, namely low-income earners, job-seekers and people living in
rural and regional areas.
The easymail closure will infuriate rural users and is likely to trigger
calls from lobby groups.
This report appears on australianIT.com.au.
Right because the "best option" for the "low incomes" is to be paying Telstra for a service that is offered for free by about 1 bazillion entities.
Only the ignorant or the forced use Telstra (thanks Malcom Turnbullshit).
I myself are unfortunately forced to use them or accept ADSL speeds and they have attempted to rip me off multiple times in the short period I've been with them.
Millions of Australian's are ripped off by this terrible business on an ongoing basis.
Wait… Am I reading this right? Do people who are not on Telstra pay to have a Telstra email address?
I've got one, but only as I am a current customer. Not that I use it (have a custom email address).
Typical zero effort from yourself posting deals
At least he's not wasting our time.
Typical extra low effort "deal" from easternculture
Good work fruit, looking at your post history most of it is stupid questions.
Easternculture at least posts useful deals.
Everyone has their unique style when it comes to posting deals. Maybe have a piece of fruit fruit;)
Many years ago (Possibly 20) Telstra used to offer free @telstra.com emails. I know someone who registered thef*[email protected]. He may still have it for all I know
I have a @telstra.com from simply signing up for My Telstra (to monitor my phone data usage).
What's so special about this…?
Does anyone know if I can get a telstra.com email account? I currently have a telstra fixed phone line, telstra prepaid mobile and telstra prepaid broadband. Or do I have to pay another $79/year for a telstra.com email account? Does anyone know where this is hosted from as I wanted to get away from American based free email servers?
Don't see how this is a deal. Why would you want to tie yourself to an ISP?
Also why the hell should anyone have to pay for email anyway
Gmail4life :p