For a couple of weeks, I have been in the process of changing the e.mail address that various parties have on file for me. Initially, a considerable amount of each day went into this chore. Now, it's just a few minutes here-and-there, when I am reminded of somewhere that I need to effect a change.<\/p>
I think that it would probably bore the reader to relate the history of my e.mail addresses, so suffice it to say that I greatly value having a persistent e.mail address, and have had the same address for something on the order of 15 years, but it has been provided by a firm, AT&T<\/abbr><\/a>, with which I can no longer comfortably do such business. I'll be using I am visiting my parents because they were using the same firm for e.mail and for their webpage hosting, and are leaving it for similar reasons. I handled configuration of accounts and of e.mail handlers, and transferred WWW<\/abbr> content.<\/p> I had been using that same firm as my ISP<\/abbr> for about that same span, and as my land-line service provider since the acquisition of AT&T<\/abbr><\/a> by SBC<\/abbr> Communications<\/a>. I have had my land-line disconnected, and turned to Sprint<\/a>, my cellular telephone service provider, as my ISP<\/abbr>. I'm using a Novatel Wireless™ MiFi™ 2200 Mobile Hotspot<\/a> to connect to the 'Net<\/abbr>. For about $100 more, I could have got a Sierra Wireless™ AirCard® W801 (AKA<\/abbr> oeconomist.com<\/code> for my email domain now, and hope that I can do so for at least 15 years.<\/p> Overdrive™ 3G<\/abbr>\/4G<\/abbr><\/q>) Mobile Hotspot<\/a>, but Sprint doesn't provide and doesn't seem scheduled to provide a 4G<\/abbr> network anywhere that I expect to find myself for a few years (after which time there will be new choices in such devices).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For a couple of weeks, I have been in the process of changing the e.mail address that various parties have on file for me. Initially, a considerable amount of each day went into this chore. Now, it's just a few minutes here-and-there, when I am reminded of somewhere that I need to effect a change. […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,69,5,4],"tags":[781,14,776,777,780,779,778,79],"class_list":["post-3425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-information-technology","category-personal","category-public","tag-american-telephone-and-telegraph","tag-att","tag-mobile-hotspots","tag-sbc-communications","tag-southwestern-bell","tag-southwestern-bell-corp","tag-southwestern-bell-corporation","tag-sprint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}