AOL announced yesterday that it would offer AOL for free.
They realized that they are not going to stay around and keep customers charging them per month but will push more on their ADs. They are doing this as a strategic effort to offer free webmail to customers to hopefully retain the people they haven't already driven to their competitors (gmail, yahoo, hotmail, and lycos [who announced yesterday it would give customers 3GB storage space and no cap on attachment size]).
TechCrunch: New Lycos email tops Gmail in storage, attachment size
Today they are announcing that they will be offering 5GB of free online storage for all web users. This service will be using XDrive and will be available for customers around September. The link below will give you a run down on the service features and the lack of limits as it seems.
AOL to provide 5GB of online storage for free - Download Squad
So does this mean AOL is back in the game? Has Time Warner realized a better way to utilize AOL? Only time will tell.
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