Hi..
New customer to 3 ..yes I know...

Now I am really confused with this email business!
I can see how to get an email address..whatever@3mail.com..
but what is the cost of using this?
I will just send small emails - no attachments, no pics, no videos.
Does it cost anything to send/receive?
Or does the cost come from my monthly time allowance?
I can see an addon for £5 which seems to be for those who want to send lots of large attachments.. is this the only option?

ta for any sensible advice!

Ant

First of all, good choice on the Three network.

Right, emails on Three, there are a couple of posts on this already but until early next year it's free to send email from your handset. You will however be charged to download emails.

I use my handset for sending and receiving a lot of emails, some times a few meg at a time and I've never really noticed much difference in my bills.

The complete pricing for emails is available on Three's website if you want full details.

Thanks for that.. found the website very confusing.. but will look closer!

Remember that you can now use Hotmail and Yahoo via the £2.50 interenet option. Saves you having another e-mail address if you already use a webmail provider

Woah!! Stop stop stop!

It's free to recieve emails but they charge you to send emails.

Now you see! This is why I am confused!!
Suppose I will have to send one and find out what happens LOL!

I sent a photo taken with my phone to someone via e-mail and it cost me 42p - what a rip off!

3 is a scam it used to be free to send and recive and i used to redirect the email from my domain to it so when i didnt have computer i could use that

That must have been one large photo, even my emails that are several meg in size never reach 42p

I often take photos using the camera on the A1000 and email them to people while out and about and I've never seen an email cost more than a couple of pence.

Three do bill these under pennies, are you sure it wasn't 4.2 pence?

In what way is it a scam??

They had an introductory period of free emails that's now expired. That's not a scam.

Nope just checked - was definitely 42p... perhaps the resolution on the camera is a bit high...

I don't think I'll use the function much anyway, its free to send them from home

when i joined i asked the person in the shop about email and they said yes it will work and i said is it always going to be free and i said i will use it as my primar y email and they said it would be good for that. then when the email wouldnt work i went in and explaned and they just said "oh well you will have to pay then"

Just had a clarification from 3 ...

Thank you for your email asking how much it costs to send or receive an email from your handset.

I would like to advise you that the costs of sending and receiving emails are:

Read a small email (less than 10 kilobytes, approx 500 words) it will cost 5p.
Read a medium or large email (10 -100 kilobytes, 500-5000 words, with/without attachments) it will cost 25p.

Send a small or medium email (10-100 kilobytes, 500-5000 words, with/without attachments) it will cost 25p.
Send a large email (100-500 kilobytes, with/without attachments) it will cost 50p.


So those who are on the free email signup, fill ya boots! Don't think I'll be bothering unless I do the monthly topup.