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1. Duneda+Z[view] [source] 2023-11-16 16:22:44
>>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.

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2. munk-a+58[view] [source] 2023-11-16 16:52:09
>>Duneda+Z
SMS rates are absolutely bonkers considering the technical way they're transmitted. The US is an outlier in SMS rates actually being reasonable (usually unlimited or close to) for consumers - but for the rest of the world the insane mark up on that communication method has mostly obsoleted it...

That'd be all well and good... the technology would die naturally, but all my American relatives continue to stubbornly use iMessage.

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3. aalimo+Cc[view] [source] 2023-11-16 17:10:36
>>munk-a+58
> stubbornly use iMessange.

Personally, I prefer it over downloading yet another client, dealing with additional credentials, wondering about who can access my messages, and so on and so forth…

And all that just to message the handful of people that I know who use <popular in other country third party app>.

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4. itslen+rg[view] [source] 2023-11-16 17:22:58
>>aalimo+Cc
If only someone would release a universal protocol that the app's native messaging apps could utilize to eliminate the need for these 3rd party messaging apps. Oh, right, it's called RCS and Apple refuses to support it.
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5. troupo+ul[view] [source] 2023-11-16 17:42:22
>>itslen+rg
> Oh, right, it's called RCS and Apple refuses to support it.

No one wants to support it. Even telecoms don't want to support it.

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6. DANmod+zo[view] [source] 2023-11-16 17:55:28
>>troupo+ul
Telecoms don't even want to roll out all of the infrastructure they get paid by the government to, I don't know that their willingness to do anything is a point I'd try to stand firmly on.
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7. lxgr+Gq[view] [source] 2023-11-16 18:04:50
>>DANmod+zo
Exactly, so how on earth does Google think that it is a good idea to put them in charge of running the infrastructure powering the future of instant messaging?

Any chance at all it has something to do with the fact that they've acquired an RCS infrastructure provider that they can sell to telcos?

https://jibe.google.com/

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