Korea's portals going for increased storage space

Competition pays its toll in Korea, where local portals started to increase storage space of their e-mail services. Apparently, the local battle started to heat up about 2 months back with CJ Internet Corp launched its own portal site mym.net or daum.net, Korea's largest internet portal.

The moves is following those of their international competitors Google, and Yahoo, where were followed by Microsoft's Hotmail. The latter announced a plan to increase their storage space to MB250 last week.

However the battle ends, it shows that storage space is quickly becoming a commodity - and that services surrounding the offering is what will drive the user to signing up with an e-mail account.