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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
Funny, because that's the reason I can't use Signal - I don't have a phone number.

>>bloggi+Ng
In case one isn't aware, you can get a $1/month throwaway phone number from Twilio for that purpose.

>>barbaz+ei
That's a neat workaround for the people that can figure that out, but doesn't change the underlying problem for the majority of users at all.

>>lxgr+Sj
Majority of users don't have phone numbers?