on 08-09-2013 14:50
on 08-09-2013 14:50
O2 EMAIL - to be removed on the 1st November 2013?!! Why???
I understand that from the 1st of November 2013 that o2 will take away the emails available for o2 customers on this date. It is disgusting when you come to think about it as there are over 250,000 customers out of a possible 30 million people that currently use o2 email's. What I can not understand is why o2 do not just provide better advertising on the subject matter as they do with TuGo the application to make calls on wireless. Also a very important note is o2 is a big company which employs 1000's of people which is highly successful in selling and buying mobile phones as well as providing contracts. Why then on this basis does o2 not keep o2 email and try and expand this through advertising? There is a big chunk of people that use o2 email's and now we have to change email address with Gmail and hotmail (both I might add with junk mail attached) and you can't even use your email address you had before as this is not accepted on the other websites.
It is going to cause a lot of of upset business customers as well as residential customers to complain about the email's being withdrawn as originally it was simple to base the email address with o2 on just your name without adding numbers or letters after this with the other email providers who are over prescribed.
I have been a loyal customer with o2 for almost 10 years because I believed that they provide good quality contracts for good prices but now the loyalty side of things is being damaged because you cant have what you really want an email address with just your name and o2.co.uk at the end of it.
I think that it is just a money saving technique which is going to prove a disaster with the loyal customers of o2. All that needs to be done is reduce the servers to meet the capacity of a million customers potentially and when they have met that quota through possible advertising slowly re-increase the servers to provide better space for new email addresses with o2.
Please let me know what you all think about the subject matter and please show your frustration even more if you have an email address with o2 or better still if you did not know they even existed!
Adrian (deciding whether I really am a loyal o2 customer)
08-09-2013 14:54 - edited 08-09-2013 14:54
08-09-2013 14:54 - edited 08-09-2013 14:54
This is part of the reason I asked for a MAC code recently from O2/Sky and gave it to Plusnet last week.
There have been several threads about the email closure, particularly in the Home Broadband section.
on 08-09-2013 14:55
on 08-09-2013 14:55
on 08-09-2013 14:56
on 08-09-2013 15:02
on 08-09-2013 15:02
Whilst having sympathy and understanding the upset caused to some people it would be refreshing if people could check other threads on the same subject.
08-09-2013 15:26 - edited 08-09-2013 22:46
08-09-2013 15:26 - edited 08-09-2013 22:46
I just wish they had allowed more time for people to move elsewhere.
Can anyone tell me what a "loyal customer" is?
on 08-09-2013 15:32
on 08-09-2013 15:32
on 08-09-2013 16:35
on 08-09-2013 16:35
Congratulations on passing the 11,000 posts mark Adam!
on 08-09-2013 20:17 - last edited on 09-09-2013 12:19 by Toby
on 08-09-2013 20:17 - last edited on 09-09-2013 12:19 by Toby
So I have got 6 weeks to transfer my two o2 email accounts that I use for everything.
No wonder I swapped back to BT for broadband plus I will swap my mobile phone provider as well when the contracts runs out.
That is all
on 09-09-2013 02:06
on 09-09-2013 02:06
I am absolutely appalled.
It is bad enough that, for a lot of users of the o2.co.uk email, time will have to be spent amending account details to show a different (and hopefully permanent) email address and informing contacts of a need to change their email address.
It is far worse that many, many others will have to spend money to have their stationery, websites and promotional material changed to reflect an alternative email address.
Not only that but they are also ending the online text service.
Do you realise that if you have paid for online texts and do not use them before 1st November you will lose them? This feels like theft!!