there are 2 possibilities:

1. if your @sbcglobal.net email ID is or shows Powered by Yahoo! in the AT&T system, you will be able to keep the portal and the email access. nothing will change. it will still allow you to access the home/mail pages (@sbcglobal.net) thru att.yahoo.com website even after disconnecting the service.

2. if your email ID is not Powered by Yahoo!, you could still access the email ID @sbcglobal.net for the next 60 days at att.yahoo.com website. sometime after that you can transfer your email information (contacts, email folders, emails etc.) to a free @yahoo.com email ID. you will encounter a TRAP page telling you that your email ID either needs to be reactivated or renamed to a free account. you just need to click on the TRANSFER button.

once the transfer has been completed, you can start accessing your email ID at www.yahoo.com website. no need to type the domain @sbcglobal.net anymore.

ex. akee@sbcglobal.net will become akee@yahoo.com; just type akee as the username when you login at www.yahoo.com

hope this helps!