Important information from PlusNet on dial-up service
Of course, "once upon a time" you could downgrade to a dial-up account for free and still maintain the email when you moved away.
I did this some years ago and still got paid for my referrals too. That worked perfectly for several years, though obviously "the rules" have changed since that time.
The email worked fine, though it wasn't even "tertiary" for me. Still does.
Mind you, reactivating the account a year or so ago when I brought my broadband back was a total nightmare of "computer says no" but someone (they know who they are
) I think took it on as a personal challenge and made it work - lots of serious heavy machinery and non-standard processes involved I think. 
And as for the nightmare of sorting out the direct debit to pay my monthly bill (bearing in mind it was already there and working, to pay me for the referrals) the least said the better.
I did this some years ago and still got paid for my referrals too. That worked perfectly for several years, though obviously "the rules" have changed since that time.
The email worked fine, though it wasn't even "tertiary" for me. Still does.
Mind you, reactivating the account a year or so ago when I brought my broadband back was a total nightmare of "computer says no" but someone (they know who they are
) I think took it on as a personal challenge and made it work - lots of serious heavy machinery and non-standard processes involved I think. And as for the nightmare of sorting out the direct debit to pay my monthly bill (bearing in mind it was already there and working, to pay me for the referrals) the least said the better.
Quote from: Oldjim Is the £20 taken as a lump sum each year or as a monthly payment or is it a one off payment giving access for ever
Yes it is a annual payment. Customers who just want access to the e-mail don't have to go with this however if customers have webspace and want to continue to be able to FTP into it you'll need to change onto the mail only package.
I'll have to chase up the referrals side of things to find out how that would work as your referral tokens are added monthly but your payments would be annually.
Only just seen this. Well that's deplorable that Dial-up is being discontinued, as a BT owned company that not so long ago asked it's BT Retail Dial-up customers to move to Plusnet and one of the few remaining companies to have dial-up, it's a service BT should continue. It's a damned handy back for when the BB goes down. And as previously remarked, you used to be able to down-grade to a Dial-up account for free. Seems Plusnet are getting more like BT everyday 
Quote from: Anotherone Seems Plusnet are getting more like BT everyday
With a BT CEO at the helm, would you expect it to be any different?
The removal of the possibility of using dial-up as a fall-back option is yet further dilution of the service / package offering which set PlusNet apart from the likes of big do-not-care about the customer conglomerates such as BT. It all just underpins the perspective that BT saw the potential of PlusNet to be serious competition to BT Retail operations and therefore bought them up to clip their wings. And just to ensure that there are no skunk work activities to maintain a distinctive offering, they put one of their own into the CEO chair.
If customers want to continue to use our outgoing server and to be able to FTP their webspace they'll have no choice but to move onto the mail only package.
On the other hand if they just want it for receiving e-mail only then they can keep the account as it is.
On the other hand if they just want it for receiving e-mail only then they can keep the account as it is.
