Virgin Media home broadband customers are set to be migrated over to Google’s Gmail service for their email services.
The start of the migration started last week as Virgin are set to move their 4 million broadband customers from their own in-house email platform over to Gmail.
Virgin broadband customers don’t need to worry about losing their current email addresses, and even those who still have @blueyonder.co.uk, @ntlworld.com and &virgin.net email address will be able to keep them if they want. All new Virgin broadband email address will be via @virginmedia.com and will come with the Gmail services of POP3 and IMAP access and also receive 7GB inbox space and will be done on the Gmail platform that has proved very stable since it was launched back in 2004.
Each customer will be able to have up to 10 email addresses if they wish meaning that Virgin broadband customers could potentially create up to 40 million email address between them!
The service will at first be offered to the next 20,000 new Virgin broadband customers who sign up before it is rolled out to the rest of the Virgin Media customer base.
Last week we told of another “customer service” that Virgin were offering with the launch of VStuff which is an auto-backup storage for Virgin broadband customers.