A slew of free texting apps are out there right now, and they have the potential to cut your phone bill by enabling you to bypass your phone carrier’s SMS functions. These third-party solutions take advantage of data networks, including the Internet, to send and receive texts, and they let you text without going through the carrier’s traditional SMS cellular technology, which piggybacks on voice channels. The bandwidth used for the texts becomes an invisible part of your data package, and you can cut out specific “texting” packages, or individual text charges.
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TextFree: An Open, Worldly, No-Fees-Attached Texter
Posted by: Patrick Nelson November 18, 2011 05:00 AMA slew of free texting apps are out there right now, and they have the potential to cut your phone bill by enabling you to bypass your phone carrier’s SMS functions. These third-party solutions take advantage of data networks, including the Internet, to send and receive texts, and they let you text without going through the carrier’s traditional SMS cellular technology, which piggybacks on voice channels. The bandwidth used for the texts becomes an invisible part of your data package, and you can cut out specific “texting” packages, or individual text charges.