Seems you need to be educated on an idea called tragedy of the commons.

I don't think so, the suggestion is there's a single tuppence and lots of farthings. To ignore the greater wealth in smaller denominations to go after the "big prize" is foolish.

The company where I work uses their BOSS Geo service, which costs us about $20-100 per month depending on what marketing campaigns are being done.

How do you know?

Actually RMS has said that development of the Hurd stalled largely because of the introduction of Linux, but that there was enough work already put in to it that that they didn't want to cancel it altogether.
http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd-and-linux.html

Approx. $2000? Wow, that is an expensive case!

That's what they say about all the landline ILECs as well, but luckily there are enough CLECs who disagree and provide choice in the marketplace, driving costs down. Of course phone service is still over-priced in North America, because of the influence of the gorillas.

Calling small, competing companies "bit players" is a bit disdainful.

One data point isn't well populated :P

There's also Dell Voice and Google Voice might be coming soon, but I imagine that Facebook is piggybacking on Vonage Mobile to beat Google.

I think there's plenty of space in the market.

My daughter, now 10, has had a gmail account for a few years which she uses to correspond to friends and family. About 6 months ago she got locked out of her account because she started creating a Google+ profile (it prompted her to do it), and put in her real birthday. I didn't want her to lose all her correspondence, so went through the painful process of having the account put under my name (and having to verify my birth date). Google's done a lot of things I don't like, but their services tend to be better than the alternatives.

Oh really? Can I get her name and phone number?

Sears catalogue, biatch!

It is on my network!

Yahoo PlaceFinder does address tokenization down to the subdwelling (floor/unit level) that I haven't found in any other service.