By Winston Chai, 30 July 2004 09:10
NEWS Yahoo! has increased the storage limit of its free email service tenfold in China, but users elsewhere may not get to enjoy the same benefit anytime soon.
In a statement on its website, the company said it has boosted the storage capacity for its free mail service from 100MB to 1GB, matching the storage of rival Google's upcoming Gmail offering.
While Gmail's trials are confined to a select group, Yahoo!'s upgrade will be extended to all existing and new users of its mail service in China. However, subscribers must first log on to Yahoo's instant messenger service and add other users to their contact lists to qualify for the 1GB of storage.
A representative of Yahoo! South East Asia said there are "no immediate plans" to offer a similar upgrade to users in other countries.
The move marks the latest attempt by a major search giant to garner a greater share of China's booming internet market, which, according to the China internet Network Information Centre, is expected to exceed 100 million users by year's end.
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1. Jansen
it's hard to say yahoo copies google. there are just many companies launched gigabyte email service out there on the web. it is the trend so yahoo follow.
the difference between yahoo cn email and gmail is that the gigabyte email is not the main focus. the hidden agenda behind is their yahoo! messenger.
2. sudipta dutta
I don't know what is the problem with yahoo. They r offering 6.00 Mb to India and to change it in to 100 MB we had to make a trick but they are offering 1GB to CHINA.. Is not this a bad strategy?? Hello CEO YAHOO is u listening you may loose in India... This country is more marketable as far china.. We have the more amount of internet user but u people have no idea because u people don’t have any idea that we are using your .com id also.. I am simply speechless and get shocked when I get the information of the ratio of storage India: china 6:1024.. Say something please