![]() TPG – which owns brands that have historically offered email including iiNet all the way back to OzEmail – informed customers in July that it would migrate their email to a separate private service, the Messaging Company, by the end of November. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundupĪustralia’s largest internet provider Telstra still offers its Bigpond email addresses and, while it did not say how many users are on it, admitted there hadn’t been much growth in the past few years. The cost for relatively small – by comparison to Google – companies to offer the service has gone up in server and administration costs without the economies of scale. It is now not uncommon for someone to set up their own email address in a domain of their choosing.īut in the nascent days of the internet before Google and Microsoft were the online internet behemoths, getting your email address from your internet service provider was the norm, and even attractive as a bundle package – and a way for internet providers to lock you into their service. Free online services such as Gmail, Hotmail, Outlook and others not tied to the internet provider are the default. ![]() For millennials and younger, the notion of getting your email address from the company you pay for broadband might seem antiquated. ![]() The Canberra-based iiNet customer has had the same email address since the 1990s.
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