AOL could get a new crop of customers

Verizon has, since a week ago, been telling clients that it is surrendering control of 4.5 million client email accounts and will be relocating those records to Aolmail Login — a move that may give a few flashbacks to the 1990s. (Those free CDs, we assume, are not returning.)

Clients have 30 days to pick one of three alternatives before they lose access to their records: make a beeline for AOL, exchange their email to another supplier or allow their records to sit unbothered to be erased.

Verizon clients who pick the AOL alternative will in any case have the capacity to keep their current locations, which will convey the "verizon.net" finishing. They will, in any case, need to tell Verizon that they need to cling to their locations and sign in through AOL's framework starting now and into the foreseeable future, the email said.

Why the change? As indicated by a data page on Verizon's site, the firm said it understood there are "more skilled email stages out there" — including Login Guide, which has been claimed by Verizon since 2015.

Relocating from Verizon to AOL will be simple. Clients inspired by keeping their email addresses don't need to do much. Verizon will relocate the contacts, logbooks, email and other data to AOL for them.

For the individuals who aren't that inspired by moving to AOL, things get somewhat more confused.

As indicated by Verizon's guide page, clients keen on moving their records somewhere else ought to take after the directions for bringing in mail and other data given by whatever email supplier they pick next.