It’s well-known that phone plans in North America are among the highest in the world. So it’s no surprise that a startup is eager to swoop in and tackle the issue head-on leveraging technology.

TextNow has caught the attention of many people due to its claims of free unlimited voice calls and texts over WiFi on both Android and iOS devices. As a mobile application providing Voice over ...

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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 was ...