Textfree Users Have Sent And Received 20 Billion Text Messages, Free Of Charge

Turns out you don't have to charge an arm and a leg for SMS messages to make money off of texting. One startup that's proven this is Pinger, the company behind the massively popular free texting app Textfree. Today, the company is announcing that it's reached a major milestone: since launching in March 2009, Textfree users have sent and received a total of 20 billion text messages. For free. And they're sending and receiving another 1.5 billion messages every month (they were growing at?1 billion per month in March of this year). Textfree is so popular because it gives users free texting to and from ? here's the important bit ??their own, unique phone numbers. Fire up the app for the first time and you'll be given a new phone number that people can text the same way they would any other mobile number. Textfree is available for both iOS and Android, and it's particularly popular on devices like the iPod Touch, which wouldn't otherwise have full texting functionality (the iOS version also offers free and low-cost phone calls, which will be released on the Android version down the line). Pinger makes money via advertising.

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