Would free e-mail service from gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail/Outlook be free forever?

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No, I don't think free e-mail services like gmail, Yahoo mail, or Hotmail would be remain free forever (no monthly or yearly subscriptions fee) since it cost a lot of money to store people's undeleted e-mails, and spam e-mails which still get sent to people who never close their account, or no longer use their e-mail account on Google, Yahoo, and MS many web servers, and the bandwidth and storage cost from storing, and sending large files attach to e-mails must be expensive since they have millions to billions of active user accounts.

Online advertising revenue is also slowly becoming a less profitable way of earning money online with e-mail websites since a lot of people block, don't click on ads, or just ignore ads, so fewer people may want to buy ads on e-mail web sites. I'm not sure how many people who check e-mail are in the mood to click ads unlike shopping review websites where people click ads related to what they are shopping for.

I think in the future some free e-mail services would either be closed down because they cost too much to run without making enough money for the company who runs it, or users who want to keep their e-mail address have to pay a yearly fee like $10 a year for 25GB of e-mail space.
 
Someone will always provide a free email service, anyone that goes costly is good as dead. Besides you make a point that it cost a lot to keep them going which means they do make money right now from their email service.
 
I wonder if the percentage of spammers using free e-mails services greatly out number the percentage of regular/non-spammer would it be almost less profitable to non-profitable to run a free e-mail service since I think most spammers who spam would be not buy or click ads from other spammers who use e-mail to spam, and a lot of spammers use bots, so they don't even need to log-in to e-mail accounts by going to gmail.com or outlook.com to send spam, so a lot of these free e-mail services are giving away e-mail service to spammers who don't use them for its actual purpose, but may end up using up a lot of bandwidth, storage, and e-mail addresses which can be expensive.

I read that 97% of e-mail is spam, or useless to the receiver , so I think people just use e-mail these days for registering for forums, social networks, and websites, and sometimes for work and school, and e-mail is slowly becoming a service which few people uses on a regular basis

I read that Facebook free e-mail service is connected to your Facebook account, and Google gmail now connects your gmail to Google+, and Google Play, so when you are on Gmail, you are on Google Plus because they are the same service except with gMail you can send and receive mail from all e-mail accounts unlike Facebook Personal Message. Maybe in the future most free e-mail services will be automatically connected to social networks where you can buy paid apps, and view ads in the sidebar while you play games, chat, and watch online videos and photos.
 
They'll most likely remain free forever. As BA pointed out they make money from our email info. If their service wasn't free anymore, people would turn to other free services. Including free email accounts offered with your Internet subscriptions.
 
I always thought most e-mail providers make money when people buy ad space, and click on links which lead them to Amazon, eBay, and other online stores, and the e-mail provider gets a commision of 4-25% from the sales of goods and services as well.

I mostly use the e-mail service provided by my ISP as well.

I think Gmail/Google makes more money as the login user name and password for YouTube, Blogger, Play Store and other services which anyone can use to upload public content to earn money from ads, selling content like movies, music, shows, apps, and other digital items where you need to split a percentage of your earnings to Google because you are using their website.

Gmail is also the primary way Google sends newsletters to its member to give them tips on how to make more money with Adsense, YouTube, and Google Play, so both content creators and Google can increase revenue.
 
I've never used the email provided by my ISP. I've had my Gmail account for years, and even though I have a few secondary ones, its the only one I really need. Losing that email would actually have a great effect on my work, since this is how most of my clients contact me. Which reminds me that I need to make a few backups of my contacts...
 
It has to be free. Email is declining in popularity as far as I can tell, so they can't really afford it to make us pay for it.
 
Demon_Skeith said:
Someone will always provide a free email service, anyone that goes costly is good as dead. Besides you make a point that it cost a lot to keep them going which means they do make money right now from their email service.
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This. If one email service decides to make it paid the free ones will just get more popular.
 
I think gmail lets user pay for more space, and I think gmail is only free for regular people, and not buisnesses, and government which want to use their own domain name instead of @gmail.com .

I remember Hotmail also had a paid plan for more storage, and features.
 
Yes, Buisnesses send and store more data, and buisnesses pay Google's gMail to remove Google's advertising, and probably let Buisnesses also replace the Google Logo and theme with the buisness own custom company logo and theme for their e-mail accounts hosted on gmail.

The Buisness version of Gmail also probably come with more features which are not available on the free version, and only available for Buisnesses.
 
froggyboy604 said:
Yes, Buisnesses send and store more data, and buisnesses pay Google's gMail to remove Google's advertising, and probably let Buisnesses also replace the Google Logo and theme with the buisness own custom company logo and theme for their e-mail accounts hosted on gmail.

The Buisness version of Gmail also probably come with more features which are not available on the free version, and only available for Buisnesses.
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This actually sounds pretty cool, and wouldn't really affect the Free users.
 
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