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I would love to know what I as an individual do cost.
It probably depends greatly on how much you use the video calling feature, I can see that being one of the most expensive components
Hardly at all. But aren’t those P2P anyways I thought relayed calls are opt in to hide your IP?! But I’m not well informed.
The thing is the default 5€/month seems a bit much. But if say 12€/year wouldn’t cover the cost I create I would want to know. I would love this to be very transparent.
Ah well I just thought about it: Wikipedia says the active userbase currently is 40.000.000. They say they need $50 mil/year that equals $1,2/user/year so around ten cents per month. So if I pay 1€/month (1,09$) I would cover the cost for me and close to 10 other users?! Is that right? My arithmetic is often wrong.