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Bia_USA

hii everyone! Does anyone know how to text phones in the USA? i wanna keep in touch with my friends but i havent found a way i had nextel which let me make internal textes but all of the sudden they started charging me extra the bill was WAY to expensive till then i havent found another company that has that kind of service.

afellows

Hi Bia! I use TextNow; it is a free application I downloaded into my iPhone -- it gives me a free US number I can use for texting only. I gave this number to my US friends, and we can text back and forth for free.

If you have any questions, please do let me know.

Cheers,
Amanda

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