Helen Horstmann-Allen in Philly and Bron Gondwana in Australia run Fastcall for people who don't want to depend on Big Tech for email service.
Early users, Horstmann-Allen recalled, were techies who understood how email worked and sought a reliable provider they could reach on the phone. Later, customers focused on privacy, hoping to shield their communications data from big tech companies.,” she said. “But we can see now that ‘free’ service is costing us dearly. People want to be a customer, not the product.”Most recently, Horstmann-Allen said, Fastmail has attracted users who “are seeking to gain control of their identity.
“The internet changes so fast,” Gondwana said. “You don’t know if an article you read online has changed from yesterday. But email doesn’t change. And that is becoming valuable. A lot of young people are now using email, not so much to communicate with people, but to save their information.” Google didn’t respond to queries about competition from independent providers. Companies such as Fastmail aren’t a threat to internet services that provide connectivity and many other services besides email: “Independent email providers don’t represent a competitive solution [vs.] Comcast Business; rather, these could be one of many communication and collaboration applications” a customer uses, said Matt Helmke, a Comcast spokesperson.
,” rating ProtonMail’s security as “more advanced” but gave Fastmail an edge for “more diverse features,” such as rich text search and storage for hundreds of aliases.At least a few of Fastmail’s business users are hometown-proud Philadelphians.
Rhoda signed his company up. “And now I don’t have spam issues. They are really good at registering what is spam based in my inbox and what I don’t what to see. I like that it allows me to focus on what I need to focus on.
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