Anyone with a SprintPCS phone and Vision/Picture Mail service has an email address <subscriber>@sprintpcs.com. You can change your subscriber name, too. Everyone with SMS has the additional <phonenumber>@messaging.sprintpcs.com. I never used mine because of exactly what you suggest- too easy to become dependent on it, and there is no way to transfer it.
Here's another option that you may have. My alma mater offer free email addresses for life. The address doesn't actually have a box anywhere, it just forwards to an address of my choosing, but it means I can keep that same address forever. I generally give it out as my personal email address. Many colleges and universtities are offering this same kind of service at the undergrad and grad level. You can set the address to forward to your phone's email address, and then you have email on your phone! > To me, one of the more interesting aspects of Paris Hiltons hacked > address book is the number of @tmail email addresses. When I was in > Japan 5 years ago everybody used his phone number as email address: > <number>@docomo.net.jp > To date I have never seen such an integration between phone and email > in the west, but this address book is the first sign that telco's are > trying to get into this market that traditionally was owned by ISPs. > Is anybody on the list using an email address provided by his > cellphone company? > > > I am not so sure I am happy with this development. While there are > rules to allow the migration of phone numbers between telco's, there > are no such rules for email addresses. If the regulators are not > carefull we will soon have the same old problem with phone service > migration not being a realistic option because you ahve to inform a > gazillion people all over again. > > Opinions anyone? > Jochem ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:148070 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
