Sending mail takes forever

why does the iphone take an hour to send mail using the mobile me service?
My freind's emails go out instantly on his gmail account.
Is apple just charging top dollar for bush league service again? I thought they upgraded things a while ago so it would offer close to service that you get for FREE elsewhere. Is that not correct?
Doug M
Message was edited by: Douglas Meeuwsen

I just noticed hat e-mails are taking a long time to get set out. maybe is the network?

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