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>>mikece+(OP)
> Storage: $1.3 million dollars per year.

> Servers: $2.9 million dollars per year.

> Registration Fees: $6 million dollars per year.

> Total Bandwidth: $2.8 million dollars per year.

> Additional Services: $700,000 dollars per year.

Signal pays more for delivering verification SMS during sign-up, than for all other infrastructure (except traffic) combined. Wow, that sounds excessive.

>>Duneda+Z
is there any way they can reduce that cost?

>>bilal4+S1
Yeah, decouple Signal user identity from the phone number.

>>java-m+s2
Which might be said to increase privacy. I suppose there's something to the point about combating spam. But surely there are other ways to do this, right?

>>xhkkff+98
Getting rid of phone numbers would make anonymity easier, but it wouldn't affect privacy. Signal is explicitly private but not anonymous.

In most countries, you can get an anonymous phone number anyway.