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Ok but a serious company wouldn't pay per byte if they were trying to save money. They could buy that much connectivity for like 50k a month. (Though they'd need to get some switches and have a network engineer.)

And if that's audio/video Vs just text, clever NAT hole punching techniques could reduce it if truly needed.

But, it seems WhatsApp was on SoftLayer? In that case their costs might have been vastly higher.




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