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By Nicholas Iatropoulos, CJME News

SaskTel email addresses will no longer be free starting in April

Jan 19, 2023 | 12:12 PM

SaskTel Internet customers are normally able to use their SaskTel email address for free.

Those days will soon be over, as SaskTel will start charging customers $1.95 per month for each sasktel.net email address they have.

The Crown corporation says in a message sent out to customers the change will take effect on April 21.

“(Customers) will see this price change and applicable prorated charges on their first bill after this date,” SaskTel said in the message.

A message sent to SaskTel Internet customers on Jan. 19, 2023. (Submitted)

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The company responded to a request for comment with a statement.

“SaskTel understands how important email accounts and addresses may be to some, and in order to provide customers with ample notice of this planned rate change, SaskTel has begun communicating to impacted customers,” it said.

“SaskTel had issued a stop sell of the service in January 2022 since there are many free alternatives available (Gmail, Hotmail, etc.).”

980 CJME also contacted Access Communications and Shaw Communications to ask them whether they’ll also be raising prices, but hadn’t heard back by the time of publication.