Yahoo! Mail Drops Storage Limits

UPDATED Starting in May, Yahoo! Mail will offer all users unlimited storage, becoming the second major webmail provider to do so for non-paying customers behind AOL. The company currently offers 1GB of storage for free, and 2GB in its premium service. In comparison, Microsoft offers 2GB and Google 2.5GB.

Yahoo! Mail users will begin seeing the upgrade in May, with the full rollout expected to take a month. Only customers in China and Japan will not see the storage increases. Web-based e-mail is becoming an increasingly competitive market, with AOL and Google recently integrating instant messaging, and Microsoft preparing an overhauled webmail client called Windows Live Hotmail.