Sugar Mobile offers sweet deal to Canadian wireless consumers

TORONTO - Sugar Mobile is offering a new service that allows Canadian wireless users to move seamlessly from a mobile network to free WiFi, much like how a hybrid car switches from gasoline to electricity.The Sugar App, built in partnership between Sugar, Ice Wireless and their parent company Iristel Inc., is billed as an over-the-top (OTT) product for smartphones a la Netflix for video content. Unlike some other talk and text apps, Sugar customers may keep their existing phone number or pick a new number from a different area code in Canada.For $19 a month, the Sugar SIM card allows...