The hybrid, cloud-based carrier offers a Free Essential Data plan, which includes free unlimited talk, text, and select data access for must-have apps, such as Waze, Lyft, Uber, Gmail, and Google ...

Waterloo-based TextNow is offering its free talk and text cellular phone service in Canada for the first time ever to support those impacted amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “With more than a million jobs ...

Tristan Huntington vividly remembers when he and the rest of his team at TextNow realized their free calling-and-texting app was being abused. It was 2011 and their Waterloo, Ont.-based startup ...