Lycos ups email storage

Lycos has fired the latest salvo in the battle to offer consumers the largest amount of storage space with their email service.

A new subscription email service from Lycos offers 10GB of storage and its free email service has been boosted to provide 300MB of space.

According to Lycos, its Personal Mail 10GB account, which costs £3.49 a month, will let you store up to five million text emails, 200,000 digital images, 25,000 music files or 50 films - making it the largest email service available.

Wessel van Rensburg, email and mobile product manager at Lycos, said "People's use of data has changed considerably with the growth of digital media such as music and photography. Lycos UK's email services enable users to send files of a greater size to each other and offer the space online to store them.”

“The Lycos UK FreeMail 300MB service means there is a free webmail product on the market with sufficient storage for medium email users to be able to share images and documents - something they would struggle to do on Hotmail's paltry 2MB service.”

All the email services provide access to Lycos's new virtual hard drive service, which launched last month. This lets you drag and drop files from Windows directly into an online storage drive. According to Lycos, because more people now use more than one PC, the Online Drive "means users have access to documents wherever they have an internet connection".

Yahoo offers 100MB of storage space to its free email customers and 2GB with its £11.99 a year Mail Plus service. Google’s Gmail offers 1GB of free storage, while Hotmail offers 250MB with its free service and charges £14.99 a year for 2GB of space with Hotmail Plus.