Pinger Inc. is a company created in California, to facilitate communications via a mobile phone. The application of Pinger, Textfree, is a text and call for proprietary Smartphone application. Users can communicate with other people who do not use Textfree through text messages and calls. Users can call to USA and Canada, while text messages are free of charge in 35 countries. Pinger was founded in 2005 by a mannequin wrapped in Christmas lights with the dream of reinventing the mobile communication.