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Ask Slashdot: Data Storage Highway Robbery?

Posted by timothy on from the airwave-robbery-is-very-common dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I just learned that Salesforce charges $3000 per year for 1GB of extra data storage. That puts it in line with hardware storage costs from about 1993. We've all heard of telcos and ISPs charging ridiculous rates per MB when limits are reached — what's the most ridiculous rate that you've heard?"

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  1. Re:SMS by tepples · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Internet mail is universal for anyone with a smartphone. If you have the Gmail app, for example, you can send to users of any mail server, and users of any mail server can send to you. Probably the only cell phone users you can't reach with Internet mail are users of sub-$100 phones or users on sub-$300/yr plans.