When it comes to reasons for them to force everyone off I believe it has to do with control. ISP accounts tend to be personal accounts, but when you stop being a customer of the ISP they will deactivate the account. Now that they tied purchases on the play store to the account it made things very messy when a customers account was deactivated and they suddenly lose all of this stuff they paid for.
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 7:45 AM, Matt Hoppes <mhop...@indigowireless.com> wrote: > Which is odd. Considering it was basically gmail on the back end and they > still got ad revenue from it. > > > >> On Aug 24, 2015, at 08:34, Scott Helms <khe...@zcorum.com> wrote: >> >> Ryan, >> >> Most certainly, the charges varied some because of size and other factors >> but it was around 25 cents monthly per Gmail box. >> >> >> Scott Helms >> Vice President of Technology >> ZCorum >> (678) 507-5000 >> -------------------------------- >> http://twitter.com/kscotthelms >> -------------------------------- >> >>> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 1:43 AM, Ryan Finnesey <r...@finnesey.com> wrote: >>> >>> Was Google charging ISPs for this service? >>> >>> Cheers >>> Ryan >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Gary Greene >>> Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 2:18 PM >>> To: Shawn L <sha...@up.net> >>> Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org> >>> Subject: Re: Google Apps for ISPs -- Lingering fallout >>> >>> You’ll need to escalate this with Google. If the front-end support team >>> cannot help, move up the chain as far as you can. It should eventually >>> reach the PM that worked on the turn-down of that service and get some >>> action. >>> >>> -- >>> Gary L. Greene, Jr. >>> Sr. Systems Administrator >>> IT Operations >>> Minerva Networks, Inc. >>> Cell: +1 (650) 704-6633 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> On Aug 18, 2015, at 10:39 AM, Shawn L <sha...@up.net> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> I know there are others on this list who used Google Apps for ISPs and >>> recently migrated off (as the service was discontinued). >>>> >>>> We have had several cases where the user had a YouTube channel or Picasa >>> photo albums, etc. that they created with their Google Apps for ISPs >>> credentials. Now that the service is gone, those channels and albums still >>> exist but the users are unable to login to them or manage them in any way >>> because it tells them that their account has been disabled. >>>> >>>> Of course, Google had been un-responsive to all of our (and the >>> customer's) inquiries about how to fix this. >>>> >>>> Has anyone else run into this and found a way around it? >>>> >>>> thanks >>>> >>>> >>>> Shawn >>>> >>> >>>