Yahoo Inc. Promises Unlimited E-Mail Storage

Mar 29, 08:48 AM

Current Headlines: By Tulsa World, Okla.

Mar. 29--In another reminder of technology's quantum leaps, Yahoo Inc.'s free e-mail service will provide unlimited storage space to its nearly 250 million users worldwide -- a concept that seemed unfathomable just a few years ago.

"We're psyched to be breaking new ground in the digital storage frontier by giving our users the freedom to never worry about deleting old messages again," John Kremer, a Yahoo vice president of mail, wrote in an announcement posted late Tuesday on the company's Web site.

With the move, Yahoo will trump its two largest rivals in free e-mail, Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc., which currently provide 2 gigabytes and 2.8 gigabytes of free storage, respectively.

Yahoo's e-mail users currently get 1 gigabyte of storage. Yahoo plans to gradually lift all space constraints in May, but it will take several months before all of Yahoo's e-mail users have infinite storage space.

Time Warner Inc.'s AOL, the fourth largest e-mail provider, began offering free unlimited storage last summer.

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