June 21st, 2004
Email Quota Increases!
Gmail started it all by announcing 1000MB storage for free.
Lycos soon followed suit. Recently Yahoo! Mail increased its quota from 4MB to 6MB (depending on where you are and when you signed up) to a across-the-board 100MB account for free and 2GB for the premium service Mail Plus.
Now, the Indian company Rediff has increased the mailbox quota from 5MB to 1GB. Their 1GB = 1024MB. That’s 24 MB more than Gmail for the free service. They also increased their attachment limit from 1MB to 10MB in footsteps of Gmail.
As more and more companies shift over to higher mail quotas, I am left to wonder what made them choose such comparitively attrocious limits as 5MB or 6MB when all it takes to have them increase their limits by 20 to up to 200 times is a mere threat of a new service that will offer 1000MB for free. Hotmail is still at 2MB though. Apparently they aren’t really encouraging their mail service.