In China, e-mail services generated revenues of 89.63 million yuan (US$11.25 million) during the third quarter of this year, slipping by 0.92% on quarter.
Of all e-mail accounts, 46.55 million free personal accounts generated total revenues of 27.29 million yuan (US$3.43 million) last quarter.
The total revenue from e-mail services for the first three quarters of this year stood at 273.14 million yuan (US$34.10 million).
China market: Top-5 providers of free personal e-mail in 3Q 2006 |
Web portal |
Number of free personal e-mail accounts (million) |
Proportion of total number |
NetEase |
168.6 |
36.20% |
Sina |
96.8 |
20.80% |
Sohu |
80.18 |
17.20% |
Yahoo! China |
76.8 |
16.50% |
Tom |
26.78 |
5.80% |
Source:佚名