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Thursday, July 8, 2004. 11:07am
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200407/s1149300.htm
Israeli ISP launches 1 giga free e-mail
Israel's Walla Communications has launched a global one gigabyte free e-mail service, beating Google to the market in the race towards virtually limitless mail space.
Competition in the free e-mail market has heated up of late.
Search engine Google is planning G-mail, a free one gigabyte service, which is currently in the testing phase.
Yahoo recently raised its free e-mail storage space to 100 megabytes from four megabytes, although customers can pay $20 a year for two gigabytes of space.
Indian portal Rediff began offering a free gigabyte of memory in June.
Microsoft is currently in the process of upgrading its Hotmail service.
Walla's free service, which includes an anti-virus application, will be paid for by advertisements although users can pay $15 a year for an ad-free service.
Walla said users will be able to save some 40,000 e-mails, 2,000 photos and 50, one-minute video clips.