AFAIK if you are moving from a legacy product that had fax2email you can raise a ticket requesting to keep it if you move onto one of the BBYW products.
OK, thanks for that lil snippet of handy rumour
I guess I need to ask formally and see what the response is ... although having sort of been down this route before when changing A/C types, I'm not so sure that I will be quite so quick to believe the answer if it is along the lines of "yes, no probs at all, of course you can retain the service/number".
I have various e-mails on file telling me that when I moved from an F9 to PN A/C years ago, this, that and the other would be retained and there would be absolutely no problems whatsoever etc. How wrong that was and how stupid of me to take one set of official words at face-value rather asking several people several times !!!! Changing e-mail addresses and fax2email numbers that have been in near constant use for 10 years is a right PITA and no easy task seeing that this info has been used all over the world on personal/business documents, stationary and communications various. If these are going to have to change then I might just as well consider ALL the options - a little change is just as much of a pain as a big change and all that.
I'm sure there are quite a few numbers that are not actually used now but people don't want to loose them so send text faxes once a month.
Yup, I'm sure there are and sometimes that includes me if it hasn't been used in anger by someone else. But having used the service for absolutely ages, it is now a bit of security issue losing the number and potentially getting personal communications sent elsewhere. If the service wasn't sustainable then it simply shouldn't been introduced and promoted as it was. There appear to be several other independent providers that offer similar schemes (both free and paid for) so it's obviously not a possible problem unique to PN either. This does of course mean that it's no longer an essential feature from my ISP tho - as I said before, a small change is just as much of a pain as a big one - so barring the security implications, changing fax number is not so much of an issue this time as I almost certainly need to change e-mail addresses sooner rather than later.
Quoting one of IanW's comments above altho somewhat out of context I would agree, I want a service that "just works": no significant hassle, no significant problems, no significant restrictions etc. plus I want to pay a realistic amount for it and I want to use it responsibly. I've had more than enough of sharing my connection with what appears to be a vast majority of irresponsible b*ggers who see any cap/limit/threshold as some form of challenge or minimum figure, those who click on anything/everything and DL it for the sake of it and those who are trying to DL 24/7 for whatever (sad) reason they might have. It also p*sses me right off that often using my paid-for usage in the free period means that I often enjoy an iffy service.
I want a service that works when I want it and for what I happen to want it for (within reason, of course). I want to "take control" and have "Broadband MY way" as now advertised and as discussed on here at length previously but it doesn't appear to deliver. Where is the "you will be able to pay for or set higher priority for certain activities as/when you need them" that I seem to recall reading discussions on ? Unless I pay for P2P that I don't ever want to use then essentially I can't ever use ftp for instance. Why can I NOT have p2p but be able to use ftp at a realistic and usable rate occasionally ? Also, quoting max rates is fine but what exactly is the 'realistic' or min figures being achieved by users on the new profiles ? I take it that 'max' means the absolute best that you're ever likely to achieve with a following wind if no one else is using the network so, realistically, what, maybe half of the quoted figures at best and usually very much less in reality ? If I wanted a dial-up standard service then I would use dial-up and not BB
If I stumble across a document I want to read, a SW demo I want to try out or a vid I want to watch or DL then I want it in a reasonable time-frame (i.e. while I wait) not to have to plan it hours/days in advance, see it trickle in at bits/sec rather than bytes/sec or have to DL it 'n' times over because it keeps getting spiked and therefore gives up. Planning is fine if it's a whole set of iso files or something but not for random stuff. Somebody somewhere must offer a service where 'responsible' users can use the service 'responsibly' and more to the point use the BW they pay for as and when they choose or need to ! As always, recommendations for any ISP that completely bars p2p and other similar high BW waste of time and space protocols/usage anywhere on their network would be gratefully received
