Lycos launches one Gig email storage
19 May 2004
Internet company Lycos Europe has pipped Google's Gmail to the post and is now offering one Gigabyte worth of storage to paid members of its email service.
Lycos previously offered paid members storage sizes ranging from 10MB to 100MB. The new 1 Gig service, complete with spam and antivirus protection, costs around $6 a month and comes without targeted advertising.
"We will be interested to see when our competitors can offer the service that we already provide with a sustainable business model to underpin it. But size is not all that matters," said Alex Kovach, Lycos's European vice president.
Google's controversial Gmail service, currently at the beta testing stage, will offer one Gigabyte of storage free to users, but will place targeted adverts alongside emails, based on technology that scans mail for indicators of users' interests.
Yahoo has also announced that it plans to offer one Gig email storage to paying customers and also intends to upgrade its free offering to accommodate substantially more data.
According to Reuters, one GB of storage means users can store around a quarter of a million email messages or 2,000 photos.
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