“TextNow says its users spent more than 450 million minutes talking on the phone in the first full month of shutdown … up 36% more than the previous month … Texts are up too, jumping 35% to almost a billion.”

“There are a few reasons you might not want to give out your phone number – while selling things on Craigslist or using dating apps, for example – but you don’t have to. Using free apps such as … TextNow, you can get a free secondary number for calls and texts on your smartphone, tablet […]

“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.”