Assuming a 24-port switch charging $50/mo to its users (as stated by GP), that's $1200/mo revenue coming in from this particular switch's traffic. Surely that would more than cover the basic operating cost of the unit, plus a tidy profit. For those $15/mo services, $360/mo revenue on a switch still isn't bad - particularly considering that these slower lower-priced services are putting less of a strain on the hardware, and don't require as high-end hardware in the first place. I'm all theoretical, by the way. I have no data on what it costs to run a switch for a month.

Fuckin' agreed. I've found streetview to be very useful; particularly for navigating downtown Dallas and finding entrances to buildings' parking garages... Now, if Google implements "house view" with pictures of the inside of my home, then I might have a problem.