Who has the fastest free email service?

[Wil]

For my business I need an email service that is the fastest as I will be need to be responding before my competitors do. Ymail (a version of yahoo mail) does not seem to be working out. I get emails sometimes 20 minutes after they are sent out and it is way too late for me.
I hear gmail is fast for some people but Google search engine is super slow for me here so if the email is from their same servers, I have doubts.
I may be willing to pay if it meant close to real time emails so any suggestions welcome.

[Samuel]

Gmail is instant and is probably your best bet for business. It also come with free cloud service and googledrive for backing up your documents in real time.

Also in the USA Google search engine is fast and if its slow to you than you got something bad on your PC.

[Ed G]

Gmail seems to be the fastest,next I would say live.The only one that seems slow is yahoo.

[sohel]

For business, it is highly recommend to sign up with Gmail. Because it is the fastest responding mail i have ever seen. So you have to used gmail for your business.

[Jane]

Gmail is definitely a good choice but if it's slow for you where you are I'd try Hotmail.

[craig l]

Fastmail isn't free, but it is very fast and reliable. $25 for 2 years. GMX is another option, which is free but isn't encrypted like Fastmail, Outlook/Hotmail, or Yahoo.

[Jack]

Gmail is probably the best, besides you can have your own business domain for free, you know instead of dave@gmail.com you can have dave@yourdomain.com but you will be still using gmail as a platform. Pretty cool.