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Telstra Bigpond To Use Outlook.com As Email Handler

Posted by timothy on from the outlook-is-hazy dept.

New submitter sidevans writes "It looks like Australia's largest ISP is working closely with Microsoft and will soon be letting them handle customers emails using Outlook.com. The setup guide is available here. An interesting move, considering the National Broadband Network rollout is coming. What's in the future for other ISPs and how they handle email in Australia? Are the days of ISPs providing in-house email servers coming to an end?"

2 of 96 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Why do ISPs even provide email? by CyberSlugGump · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why do ISPs still provide email? There are lots of free and pay for email servers available. I say reduce my bill $1/year and get rid of it.

    I've always thought that using an ISP-provided email address is a form of vendor lock-in. Want to change ISPs? Then you will lose the email address you've had for so many years.

  2. Re:Why do ISPs even provide email? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yea must better to lock into Google. Your best interests are definitely in their mind for the zero dollars/month you give them.