Why Use Gmail when Rogers or Bell offer me a free e-mail account?
Bell offers a re branded Hotmail, and Rogers offers a re branded Yahoo webmail products. These are good, but not as good and flexible as Gmail. • Gmail is a better service, period. This is my personal opinion. • If you use a Bell (Sympatico) e-mail address and you get annoyed with Bell and want to switch to Rogers, or you live in a rural area and have a Bell dial-up service and suddenly you can get high speed Internet with Storm.ca, then you may switch Internet Service Providers (ISP). If you change ISPs and you had been using their free e-mail address, then you will loose your e-mail address at your old ISP and you will have to inform everyone you e-mail of the change. If you use a Gmail account, you can change ISPs and nothing changes with your e-mail address. • If for instance you have a Rogers Internet account, and you are visiting a friend that has chosen Bell as their ISP, and you want to send an e-mail using your laptop and a POP3 client, you will find that Bell will not send ou
