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Originally Posted by gmw
On a different but seems-to-me related note, a sign of the times sort of thing, is TPG disowning all email services. TPG and all it's myriad subsidiaries here in Australia are forcing, with little more than one month notice, all users to move their email to a different company ( The Messaging Company). They are being assured of 12 months free service, but no one is saying what happens after that.
I say "forcing" because it's the only way to keep their email address active beyond mid-September - and it can take a long time to move email addresses you've had for many years. There was no offer of free forwarding, it's move it or lose it. Of course you can forward it after you move it but that misses the point.
Meanwhile The Messaging Company offers almost no detail except that they are trusted by several companies - all of which are subsidiaries of TPG. It does not inspire confidence. Indeed, the whole arrangement looks pretty dodgy to me and I'm wondering who is expecting to profit from it. |
I first knew TPG when it was the Total Peripherals Group. I was running skunkworks projects, if we needed something not readily available TPG would get it for us via their East Asia contacts… the founder is Malaysian and his wife Taiwanese.
My ADSL service came from TPG - zero faults for years. When Telstra/NBN announced they would be pulling the plug on my landline, TPG tried, but failed, to get the NBN connection fee waived. But they gave me three years free web email service… which expired late last year.
Seems like they became greedy when David Teoh 'retired' and they decided they wanted to be a mini-Telstra.
BR