I had Verizon DSL for a very long time. It degraded so badly after a while that I had a Comcast line put in and that is what is used for Internet. I don't even think the (former Verizon) now Frontier DSL even works.
We've kept it this way for 5 years now (i.e. - left an unused ISP account) simply to keep our Verizon.net email accounts. After close to 15 years, it's hard to change all of this. Yet Verizon - before the change to Frontier - made all e-mail AOL e-mail accounts. I believe AOL e-mail accounts are free. This way we kept our verizon.net e-mail addresses. I'd drop the $50 a month Frontier service as it's a waste to spend all of that just to keep a couple of e-mail addresses, but I don't want to lose them.
If I cancel my Frontier DSL account, will the e-mail go away - or will it remain as an AOL e-mail address with a verizon.net domain? It was stupid to keep an ISP e-mail address, but 15 years ago, people never really thought about these things. I just don't know the relationship between Frontier - the former Verizon customers - and the AOL e-mail addresses we were allowed to keep with .verizon.net domains? It should stay, but I don't know if Frontier wil have AOL cancel it. I don't think AOL has anything to do with Frontier - but I am not sure. If they don't have anything to do with each other, I just have luckily kept some .verizon.net email addresses (via AOL) as free addresses. Frontier wanted me to switch to .frontier.net (or com) and I never bothered to.
Anyone know the relationships between the companies and what will happen with a Frontier DSL customer terminates service - i.e. - will they lose their verizon.net email address? It will take a year or so to get all my contracts to use a new gmail or other address. THanks.
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