Premium e-mail

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.
Please help introduce links in articles on related topics. After links have been created, remove this message.
This article has been tagged since September 2006.

Premium e-mail - term used for professional grade e-mail services that charge a fee as opposed to free e-mail services that are supported by advertising.

Premium e-mail is used to indicate a higher level of professional care and service. Some e-mail services offer a free basic version that is advertising supported along with and option to upgrade to a for-pay premium e-mail version of the same service. The for pay premium e-mail will have removed advertising along with increased storage and additional features like virus scanning and backup recovery. Premium e-mail will have dedicated human support staff while advertising supported e-mail usually have automatic support systems.

Premium e-mail also caters to needs of the professional business segment. Many premium e-mail providers target Small to Mid size Businesses (SMB's) that do not want to maintain their own e-mail server.

Examples of popular premium email service providers include: LuxSci, FastMail.FM.