Sugar Mobile lets Nextplus app users in Canada roam beyond WiFi

TORONTO — Sugar Mobile’s new partnership with California-based textPlus Inc. now allows the more than one million Canadian users of the Nextplus mobile app to roam on cellular networks when out of WiFi range for only $19 a month.The Nextplus mobile app from textPlus provides users with free texting and calling to any number worldwide from any connected Android or iOS device. Typically, Canadian users of Nextplus are young people aged 13 to 24 who connect their mobile devices without being a customer of the Big Three wireless companies in Canada, said Samer Bishay, president of Sugar Mobile, in a...