BREAKING: Virgin Media Email Is Shutting Down — Here’s What You Need To Know
It’s been all over the news and online this weekend: Virgin Media is ending its email service and moving customers to a new provider called Junara. I checked the facts myself — and unfortunately, the rumours are true.
This affects ALL Virgin Media email addresses:
@virginmedia.com - @ntlworld.com - @blueyonder.co.uk - @virgin.net
Virgin Media has officially confirmed:
“Broadband ISP Virgin Media will close its email services and migrate remaining customers to a third-party platform.”
Junara — £4.99/month (paid annually)
✅1 private email mailbox
✅Webmail access
✅Starts at 1 GB storage
✅Works with modern email apps
Storage at a Glance
Storage Estimated Email Count
1 GB ~13,200 emails
6 GB ~79,200 emails
30 GB ~400,000 emails
100 GB ~1.3 million emails
Larger attachments will reduce these totals.
Don’t get caught out — switch now and keep your communications running smoothly.
Fastmail — £4.50/month (paid annually) Better value, more features
✅ Up to 600 email aliases at no extra cost
✅ 110+ ready-to-use domains included
✅ Custom domain support with catch-all/wildcard addresses
✅ Fastmail’s Standard plan (now called the Individual plan) includes 60 GB of total storage per user, split into 50 GB for mail, calendar, and contacts, and 10 GB for dedicated file storage
✅ Fully compatible with all modern email apps
Key Takeaways
- Choose Fastmail if you are looking to buy a clean, private, modern email ecosystem from scratch, or if you want to run email through a personal domain name you own. With huge flexibility at low cost.
- Choose Junara if you need to keep your decades-old email address to avoid updating your logins across hundreds of websites.