Yahoo! Mail to Offer Unlimited Free Email Storage

As Yahoo! Mail approaches its 10-year anniversary, they will begin offering everyone unlimited email storage starting in May 2007. Yahoo Mail starting with a humble 2MB storage space, later increased to 1GB, now plans infinite unlimited free storage for the future.

RocketMail, one of the world’s first webmail products, was acquired by Yahoo! and relaunched as Yahoo! Mail in 1997. Dave reminisced -

“I remember getting in a room to plan our RocketMail launch over a decade ago and worrying that our original plan of a 2MB quota wasn’t enough, and that we needed to be radical and DOUBLE the storage to 4MB per account! It’s ironic that I routinely send and receive individual mail attachments bigger than that now. Our total capacity for mail accounts back then was 200GB for all of our customers. At Yahoo!, we’re now receiving more inbound mail than that every 10 minutes.”

The free email services have tough competition retaining users and it has a huge business potential. Gmail went invite-free recently and is already offering a huge 2GB and progressively increasing free email storage soultion. Rediffmail, a popular Indian email service gets unlimited email storage space. Windows Live Mail was rebranded Windows Live Hotmail to help users easily identify the hotmail brand and stay. Yahoo! Mail users will now have something to brag about…