UK cable and mobile operator Virgin Media said it will offer enhanced email services to its four million home broadband customers in partnership with Google. The operator's new email service will offer customers over 7 GB of storage and @virginmedia.com email addresses for the first time. Virgin Media's new email service will be one of the largest deployments of Google Partner Edition Apps, which allows businesses as well as individuals to use Google's communication and collaboration applications under their own domain names. As well as greater storage, Virgin Media's broadband customers will also benefit from advanced email search, the ability to stay up to date with emails via their mobiles, anti-virus, spam and phishing filters and up to 10 @virginmedia.com email addresses for each broadband household. Customers accessing their email through the web-based interface will also be able to take advantage of instant messaging features and organise emails into threaded conversations. Available to all of Virgin Media's home broadband customers, the enhanced services will be piloted by the first 20,000 new customers to sign up from today, with full launch to all new customers shortly after. Existing customers will then be migrated across to the new service at no extra cost and will be able to keep their existing @blueyonder.co.uk, @ntlworld.com or @virgin.net email addresses or choose to sign up for new @virginmedia.com email addresses.