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Bob, you've got it backwards. SBC bought AT&T and assumed their identity.

This is precisely why service has suffered across much of the former Baby Bells' territory for the past twenty years. SBC swallowed most of them up and implemented a sales-over-service business model. In 1997 they ripped out Pacific Bell's recently installed TV service that introduced a revolutionary Tivo-like device, developed before Tivo was even formed, saying it was a ridiculous concept.   Those jokers embraced the idea of work harder (but sorry, we're too broke to give you a raise this year), not smarter.

 

Their lobbying efforts in Washington D.C. have relaxed telecom regulations and compromised network reliability.  Their push to eliminate the mandated maintenance of copper networks while dragging their feet on spending to install fiber is why in my centralized and urban neighborhood, peppered with CEO types who can afford top notch high speed internet packages, AT&T offers top download speeds of a medieval 1.5Mbps. 

I'd say "Don't get me started," but you did.  I lived through years of tumult and suspense due to reorganizational announcements on almost a monthly basis and the constant mantra of cutting costs to pay for yet another takeover.  The greed of SBC executives harmed employees and subscribers alike, and they have twisted the knife by desecrating the AT&T brand.
 
Wow!

Granted, we use a forwarding service so we've had the same email address through 3 ISPs, but really? They'll provide Internet but not email? IIRC they just made us change the "from" address to the VZ address not long ago.

Chuck
 
Probably no big loss other then the annoyance of having to change email addresses.

I had a POP email address that I kept from 1993 till 2010. Originally it started out with my dial up ISP provider and they were sold 3 times. I kept their mail server service even after I finally got a DSL connection.

I was an early adopter of Gmail (back when it was an invite only service). In 2010 my Gmail address became my primary personal email address. I'm quite happy with it overall. I doubt there was anything about Verizon's service made it special compared to the other options out there today.
 
4.5 million verizon.net accounts of which 2.3 million are active. I wonder what constitutes "active". Does it mean a person logged into the account to read e-mail or does it simply mean the account received at least one e-mail?

Of those who do use their account I suspect most will go to Gmail. Honestly, I'm ready chuck everything, buy a Chromebook, and put my entire on-line life in the hands of Google. Why? The Windows XP answer: It just works. Aside from user error, every single Google product I've ever used started working perfectly the first time around on every single device and every single operating system.

Here are some of the things that have NOT happened with Google but HAVE at one time or another with nearly every other e-mail service and seem to be happening more frequently in the past year or two:
- security compromised so I must change my password(s)
- longtime password used regularly randomly becomes 'wrong'
- shorter password with English words + a few digits & symbols is fine but a password double the length with zero English words * many more digits & symbols is 'insecure'.
- server addresses and port settings randomly change and/or become 'wrong'

I understand there are huge security/privacy issues with Google, gmail, android, etc. I also have a real problem with the recent trend toward integration of damn near anything on-line. No, why does BookFace need to know what blogs I belong to? Newsflash: They don't.

I want to be a Linux and BBerry geek who has his e-mail servers off-shore and keeps all his on-line accounts separate from one another, but being that kind of person seems to require an ever increasing amount of time and expertise. The ONE thing that's gotten easier is using Ubuntu as my laptop OS.

Case in point: There's been a recent uptick in the number of groups catering to some of my interests. If I use Outlook or Gmail calendar all I have to do is make a few clicks and I can have every meeting of every group on ONE calendar page. No more chasing events! No more struggling with calendar settings and opaque import/export procedures! Try doing that with one of the more secure calendars.

Rant over.

Jim
 
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