Using phones ... as phones again: voice up 36% during quarantine

<p>Texting is nice. Zoom is great for work and birthday parties. And Facebook works for our wider circle of friends. &nbsp;</p> <p>But there's something about good old-fashioned audio that has us returning to voice calls on our phones during quarantine.</p> <p>TextNow says its users spent more than 450 million minutes talking on the phone in the first full month of shutdown, March. While once that might not have been a shocking thing to say, it’s up 36% more than the previous month, and totals 313,000 days or 850 years of cumulative time talking on the phone.</p>