Foreign Perspectives

All the mobile phone companies offer to move your existing number from another provider thus letting you retain your existing number.

Unfortunately, that service doesn’t yet exist for e-mail addresses. That wouldn’t be too bad but many people tend to just use the e-mail address provided by their ISP so if they move house or change ISP you lose touch with them. Others seem to flit from one freebie e-mail provider to another pretty much all the time thus making their e-mail address pretty much useless.

It doesn’t need to be like that though. All you need to do is to buy a domain (costing as little as £5/year) which’ll come with an e-mail facility. This frees you forever from being tied to an ISP and telling people that you’ve changed your e-mail.

Which is how come I’ve had the same e-mail address for ten years now.