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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFrontier sells its customers out to Yahoo.
We have Frontier DSL, one of the only 2 online options in our area.
Frontier provided email as part of the service, so we did not have to go online for our email.
I liked our "private" email program, there were no ads, I felt we had a certain degree of privacy.
Not anymore.
"For rural customers in 27 states, email is about to get more content. Through an expansion between Frontie Communications and Yahoo, these consumers will soon have more content delivered when they check email."
is how they chirpingly announce it.
Translation: email will now be on Yahoo, which will provide a startpage and lots "personalized digital experiences"
( Advertisements)
And Yahoo will have access to all of Frontiers customers and address book lists.
and hackers love sites like Yahoo.
The agreement covers Frontiers 27 state footprint.
http://www.bizreport.com/2011/07/frontier-communications-yahoo-to-co-brand-email-experience.html
monmouth
(21,078 posts)need to be subjected to is disgusting. I went back to Hotmail for the most part but still receive mail on bellsouth. You'll learn how to ignore it for the most part and just go directly to you mail. When you get the message that they're unable to retrieve your mail, keep clicking on "Mail" anyway, you'll finally get to it. I HATE YAHOO....
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)It is still online, but NO ads, it is fast and easy to use.
The only reason I still stick with Frontier ( versus a lousy cable company for dsl) is so far there are no usage limits for streaming.
And having a land line in storm country is often important when the cell towers go out.
Smilo
(1,944 posts)It happened to us, except we were left without the provider, so we chose google.