Yahoo Announces Plans To Offer Unlimited Email Storage

For all you email users always worried about your emails bouncing due to reaching your box limit, Yahoo has announced plans to solve that problem. The search engine giant announced Tuesday (March 27) that they will offer unlimited email storage to its users, which reaches more than a billion people.

According to Reuters, the unlimited service will star in May.

With people sharing more photos, music and videos, Yahoo Inc. will scrap its 1 gigabyte inbox limit, now beating out both MSN and Google's Gmail service who both offer 2.8 gigs or above.

"We are giving them no reason to ever have to delete old e-mails," Yahoo co-founder David Filo said recently, according to Reuters. "You can keep stuff forever."

The decision comes after the price of storage on personal computers drops with individuals being able to store up to a trillion bytes of data while iPod owners boast up to 80 gigs and more of music and videos in their pockets.

The service, which will start in May, will take up to a month to implement, according to Yahoo. But, they plan to monitor the service so that people do not abuse it, such as people trying to build businesses around giving away unlimited storage to other consumers using Yahoo Mail.

When Yahoo first launched Yahoo! Mail, a decade ago, its e-mail service offered 4 megabytes per user. At that time, a floppy disk for PCs held 144 megabytes.

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