Internet Fax Services
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008Stop by internetfaxreview.com where you can browse the different internet fax services in their respective categories. Also if you’ve tried one of the providers listed, please leave your thoughts about the service for future visitors.
Traditional faxing involved sending a copy of a document from one fax machine to another, over the phone network. Internet faxing (or “email faxing”) is a general term which can refer to one of a few methods of achieving this over the Internet - with a goal of both reduced costs and increased functionality over traditional faxing.
Depending on the specific method/implementation (see below), advantages of using internet fax can include:
* - No extra telephone line required for the fax
* - Paperless communication, integrated with email
* - Send and receive multiple faxes simultaneously
* - Reduction in phone costs
* - No big expensive machines
* - Security, Faxes are delivered directly to your inbox
* - Eco-friendly, print just the faxes you need
* - No need for toner or expensive fax machine repairs
* - Mobility, access your faxes from anywhere you can access your email.
So you’ve decided you’re ready to make the leap to internet fax. There are a few different internet fax providers to choose from, they all work on the same premise, delivering faxes to your email but what else? Can you receive or send a fax from your mobile phone? Can you receive them in the format you need .pdf for example.
Should something go wrong do they have 24/7 support? What about overall ease of use, you shouldn’t have to read a 50 page manual and have a computer science degree just to get started. Next there is price, the different services range in price from as low as 3.95 per month which will get you a local number you can only receive faxes on.
You can also go as high as $24.99 which will give you a thousand pages monthly to use for sending/receiving.