[happyopossum]

> More importantly, most Americas do not text anyone outside of the country, and haven't really ever

As a dual-citizen of Canada and the US, I'd have to say that's massively overgeneralized. Pretty much every Canadian I know regularly texts with Americans (iMessage or not), which means those Americans are texting with people outside of the Country.

[ninjakttty]

You're not refuting his statement. There are massively way more Americans than Canadians.

[bombcar]

And Canada is basically America for the purposes of phone numbers and texting.

What’s Canada’s country code?

[shiroiushi]

No, they're not.

The USA and Canada are really the same country, as far as the telcos are concerned. They're part of the same North American phone system, and have the same +1 prefix. Calls between the countries are all free, and don't carry international charges. You might think they're separate countries, and the governments may agree, but the telecom companies disagree.

[rchaud]

> Calls between the countries are all free, and don't carry international charges.

That depends on your phone plan. The telco charges extra if you don't have a US calling plan add-on. US roaming also costs $12/day.