Email services provided in the China market generated total revenue of 89.41 million yuan (US$11.37 million) during the fourth quarter of 2006, slipping by 0.2% on quarter.The total revenue for the year of 2006 stood at 362.55 million.
There were 469.8 million free personal email accounts at the end of December 2006, with NetEase being the largest provider, followed by Sina, Sohu, Yahoo! China and Tom.
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China market: breakdown of 4Q06 total email revenue by service category |
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Category of service |
Revenue in million yuan |
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Box |
Free personal accounts |
28.2 |
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Chargeable personal accounts |
13.05 |
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Chargeable business accounts |
14.87 |
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Setting up email box systems for business users |
33.29 |
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China market: top web portals providing free personal email services by number of accounts |
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Web portals |
Number of free personal email accounts (million) |
Occupation rate |
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NetEase |
170.06 |
36.20% |
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Sina |
97.09 |
20.67% |
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Sohu |
80.92 |
17.22% |
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Yahoo! China |
77.01 |
16.39% |
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Tom |
26.93 |
5.73% |
Source:佚名