Tech Tuesday Tip

This week the subject I'm going to tackle is E-mail.

Recently Verizon sold off portions of its business to Frontier.

In my hometown, Fort Wayne, Indiana, the transition is occurring this summer.

Instead of Verizon providing landline phone service and FIOS Internet and Television services, Frontier is taking over.

Unlike the other recent name change with Comcast rebranding some of their services as XFinity which was an internal change, the Verizon/Frontier change is an actual change in companies.

Verizon Wireless is unaffected.

What is affected is people's email accounts if you use Verizon as your email provider. You are going to have to change to a Frontier account which means a new email address for all of your contacts to switch in their address books.

There is another option.

One I consider to be better too.

Odds are you'll never, ever have to change your email address if...

you switch to an independent email provider.

What's that you ask and how much does it cost?

Gmail is from Google. Before Gmail was available I used Hotmail and Yahoo mail. But Gmail has supprior spam filtering.

Gmail is my favorite. Absolutely free. You can set up as many account with Gmail as you want.

You can have your other emails forwarded automatically. And there are many, many other advantages too.

Gmail is from Google. Before Gmail was available I used Hotmail and Yahoo mail. But Gmail has superior spam filtering.

Go here to check it out yourself.