Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee

Mon Feb 22 17:28:13 UTC 2010

On 2010-02-22, at 10:09, Gadi Evron wrote:

> The email portability bill has just been approved by the Knesset's committee for legislation, sending it on its way for the full legislation process of the Israeli parliament.
> 
> While many users own a free email account, many in Israel still make use of their ISP's email service.

Just out of interest, are those ISP-tied e-mail addresses always run by the ISP, or are they occasionally outsourced in the manner of Rogers' (Canada) or BT's (UK) respective deals with Yahoo! (US)?

It'd be an interesting twist if contracts between e-mail providers outside Israel and ISPs inside suddenly made this requirement for e-mail address portability leak beyond Israel's borders.

Joe