IMessage and international texting on Verizon?

I have an iPhone and Verizon wireless as my service provider and live in the US. I understand that it cost more money to text an international number, IE. My friend that lives in Germany, but he has an iPhone as well so it's iMessage. Does that still apply as International text messaging?

IMessage will let you text for free over the Internet (instead of the phone network) if you set it up the right way. See below.

You could also both use some other free texting app like Kik or TextFree.

IMessage is OK for international Wi-Fi text communication. Whatsapp is better.

No its not an international texting. It is counted in your data usage. You can also make free international calls using Viber app. Not sure whether you can download it on iphone. But i use it on android phone.

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