TextNow News

By Joe Paonessa • 05/08/24

TextNow has updated its free unlimited talk and text phone plan to include what it is calling “Free Essential Data.” Free Essential Data is free data that can be used with spe...

By Joe Paonessa • 04/11/22

TextNow has recently aired a new TV ad. This comes from a prepaid report just published by the firm Wave7 Research. TextNow’s new TV ad seems to be heavily influenced by and t...

By Joe Paonessa • 03/03/22

TextNow has updated its wireless plans with more options and improved pricing. There’s now a 1GB plan for $8.99. It is unknown exactly when the changes occurred. The Wayback M...

By Joe Paonessa • 09/07/21

Wave7 Research noted in a recent prepaid report that TextNow boasted in July that its customers had placed more than 5 million video calls just one month after first launching...

By Joe Paonessa • 06/15/21

Early last year, TextNow launched a free ad-supported phone plan on the Sprint network. The plan features unlimited talk and text. With TextNow fully converted over to being a...

By Joe Paonessa • 02/01/21

Wireless service providers Total Wireless and TextNow have launched their first new TV ads of 2021. For Total Wireless, it’s the Tracfone brand’s first new TV ad launch since...

By Joe Paonessa • 12/16/20

Freemium wireless provider TextNow continues to invest heavily in TV advertising. Back in October, the company launched a TV commercial called Priceless Connections. It inform...

By Joe Paonessa • 10/26/20

A recent prepaid report issued by the firm Wave7 Research detailed new TV commercial ad launches from the wireless brands TextNow and Mint Mobile. The ads are airing on TV sta...

By Joe Paonessa • 06/19/20

There’s been a big shift in the brands that are spending on national TV advertising Wave7 Research recently reported to its subscribers. Lesser known brands such as TextNow an...

By Joe Paonessa • 04/14/20

TextNow is a wireless provider that operates on the Sprint network and also over WiFi.  In late January the company unveiled a free wireless plan that it said was years in the...

By Joe Paonessa • 01/29/20

TextNow has unveiled a new free ad-supported unlimited talk and text plan on the Sprint network. A TextNow spokesperson disclosed to BestMVNO last summer that the plan was on...

By Joe Paonessa • 10/16/18

TextNow has launched a new promotion.  Buy a phone and your phone plan will be free for the remainder of 2018.  Subscribers can choose any plan they’d like.  Phones start at j...

By Joe Paonessa • 06/05/18

TextNow plans just got a whole lot cheaper with a new phone plan lineup. The head turner of the bunch is a new “unlimited” LTE data plan priced at $39.99/month. So is there a...

By Joe Paonessa • 04/11/18

TextNow has announced a new phone plan called the TextNow Starter Plan. The new plan is a talk and text only plan and it is priced at $9.99/month. Taxes and fees are included...

By Joe Paonessa • 11/15/17

TextNow has just introduced new family plan discounts.  Those who add two or more lines to an account are eligible to save up to $15 per line.  The size of the discount varies...