@Virginmedia.com addresses launch for new customers
 

Haven't seen this posted anywhere else.

As of yesterday, all new customers signing up to Virgin will get a @virginmedia.com e-mail addy and will be on the Google Mail platform.

Virgin will now start concentrating on migrating the millions of existing addresses to the Google Mail platform and once that is done the option of getting an @virginmedia.com address

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thats great news be good to get a vm email and blueyonder at the same time ;)

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Is there any indication out of interest as to how long they think it will take to migrate all of the existing users on to an optional virginmedia.com email address and onto the Googlemail platform?

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Approx 18months and it will be in stages.

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I don't think I'm going to bother - I already have a virgin.net address, and I think it has a nicer ring to it. :D

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Yours will be the first platform to merge.

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You don't HAVE to have a @virginmedia.com address - you will be able to keep @virgin.net/@ntlworld.com/@blueyonder.co.uk if you prefer

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If you are an a @ntlworld.com email user and you use all 15 alias and want to change to a @virginmedia.com email address you would have to lose 5 alias as you can only have 10 alias on the Googlemail oplatform.

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I don't think I've bothered using an ISP email for a long, long, long time... Much prefer to use my own domains as I know then if I change ISP's I don't need to change all my registered email addies

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if u make new mailboxes will these go onto the new googlemail?

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Do you have to swap from @ntlworld.com to @virginmedia.com to get onto the new Google platform out of interest?
Can you have a mixture of @nltworld.com and @virginmedia.com email addresses?

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Post 8 above answers that question for you.

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No they won't

Existing customer are staying where they are at the moment. any new e-mails get created on the platform you are on

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Does it?:confused:
Post #8 only refers to losing some aliases if you have more than 10 at the moment and move to the @virginmedia.com email.

VM Press Release
From that it seems, the answers are no, you won't have to swap over to use the Google platform and no, you can't have both(note the highlighted 'or' in the quote).

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You can have both on the google platform and all accounts will over the next 18 months transfer over to that platform and the old small 30Mb platform will close.

You can have 10 email addresses on the google platform but if you have @ntlworld.com accounts and you use all 15 allowed you can keep them all, but if you decide that you want a @virginmedia.com account then you would have to lose 6 email addresses to take one @virginmedia.com address as you can only have 10 email addresses when you take even just 1 @virginmedia.com address.

It starts to get complicated I know and we have had training on this as well.:D