@aramex1122 welcome to the community, and thanks for your interest in Public Mobile (PM).
The way PM operates is entirely pre-paid. You select the services you want, and pay for them up-front. Anything you don't select and pay for, you just don't get. So if you don't select a texting option, you will not receive any messages, nor be able to send them. This means you'll never get a surprise charge at some later date.
Do note that the more services you do select, the bigger the discount becomes on your overall plan cost. For example, on a 90-day plan, if you choose only one service (say, ONLY talk, or ONLY text, or ONLY data), then you get no discount; if you add a second service (talk + text, talk + data, text + data), then you get a $15/90 day discount on the plan cost. Adding a 3rd service (so all 3) brings that discount up to $60/90 days. So you really get the best value in selecting 2 or ideally all 3 services. Experiment a bit in the plan page (https://publicmobile.ca/en/on/plans), and you may find that the plan you want is as cheap or even cheaper when you include texting than if you don't.
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