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This isn't a net neutrality thing, it's the breaking of a relationship that AT&T and Yahoo has had for 15 years. AT&T email addresses were once Yahoo accounts.

This isn't a net neutrality thing, it's the breaking of a relationship that AT&T and Yahoo has had for 15 years. AT&T email addresses were once Yahoo accounts. Now they're not. SBC, prior to acquiring BellSouth and AT&T, originally contracted with Yahoo to run email/web portal service for their customers. The SBC/ATT email addresses were essentially premium Yahoo accounts but with SBC's domain, and had access to all of Yahoo's products. At least at one point, SBC/ATT customers got free Flickr Pro as part of this. AT&T evidently has left email the same (for now) but they've set up their own web portal. People have been informed that the former Yahoo-enabled accounts will no longer be usable for Yahoo properties. https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r31478297-Legacy-swbell-user-and-AT-T-June-28-changes https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r31478297-Legacy-swbell-use... edit, after your edit: since it seems like Yahoo is still handling the email side (for the time being) I imagine their system just treats these email addresses as neutered Yahoo accounts, so they'd be unusable on Yahoo-owned services that expect a Yahoo account.

StevePerkins 9y ago
This should be a top-level comment... and really, the only comment in this thread. Everything else is clickbait hysteria.
plorg 9y ago
Up until last year I was still on AT&T and using a dumbphone. The phone I had came with software to sync contacts with "the cloud". It was much easier to edit the list online (or even just as a CSV file) than on the phone itself. I never figured out how to access this list using the normal AT&T online portal, but I did find it through the Yahoo portal, if mostly by accident.
yahooForLyfe 9y ago
I had an independent Yahoo email for years before having SBC/ATT. When I signed up they offered to tie my yahoo email into their system. What they didn't tell me was there is no way to unconnect when you cancel ATT services. So now, many years later, my login always redirects to an ATT/Yahoo! page for whatever I'm trying to view (news, email, etc.)

StevePerkins 9y ago

This should be a top-level comment... and really, the only comment in this thread. Everything else is clickbait hysteria.

plorg 9y ago

Up until last year I was still on AT&T and using a dumbphone. The phone I had came with software to sync contacts with "the cloud". It was much easier to edit the list online (or even just as a CSV file) than on the phone itself. I never figured out how to access this list using the normal AT&T online portal, but I did find it through the Yahoo portal, if mostly by accident.

yahooForLyfe 9y ago

I had an independent Yahoo email for years before having SBC/ATT. When I signed up they offered to tie my yahoo email into their system. What they didn't tell me was there is no way to unconnect when you cancel ATT services. So now, many years later, my login always redirects to an ATT/Yahoo! page for whatever I'm trying to view (news, email, etc.)