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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
Send them via whatsapp. A lot of online services give an option to send OTP via whatsapp along with SMS/Email.

>>i67vw3+wc
As far as I understand, this is even more expensive than SMS in many cases due to WhatsApp's B2C messaging fee structure.

It's also not a great idea to make sign-ups for an instant messaging service contingent on having an account with another, competing service.