On Feb 13, 2005, at 4:43 PM, John Novack wrote:
I use JFAX which I think is also known as Efax.
If you are open to a new fax number anywhere else in the US from your home Zip code, then it is free.
Otherwise there is a quarterly fee.
AFAIK, you can't� port an existing number to them, but I could be off on that.
http://www.j2.com/jconnect/twa/page/servicesOverview
I have a free eFax number that I've maintained for testing...although I'm unable to fax to it via Sixtel (you begin to hear a carrier but within 1/2 a second it's cut off). So much for testing.
I have also used a Broadvox residential account for inbound faxing (they include fax-to-email as part of their feature set). But I think they may have broken this feature recently when they switched to a new VM system.
While you might not be able to port a phone number to eFax, there's nothing stopping you from forwarding a number to eFax.
But like I said, I've found outbound fax to be more of a problem than inbound. While the latter has worked well for me with Vonage and Voicepulse, the bigger problem is the former (outbound) as it's only ever worked reliably for me with a plain residential single-line account that I've had since May 2003. With Broadvox faxing was completely unreliable and often didn't work EVEN THOUGH they have T.38 support. Here's what I learned though: just because your CPE supports T.38 and your provider's gateway supports T.38, that doesn't mean that the carrier sitting in between supports T.38. Level 3, for instance, doesn't support T.38 at the moment (at least, not in all markets). So IMHO, T.38 ain't gonna do anyone any good until it's implemented across the board and who the heck knows when that might happen.
While eFax, and similar services, are some sort of a solution to at least half the problem, I just think using these services is a kludge. The beauty of fax is: stick a document in at one end, dial a number, and the document spits out at the other end. No clumsy scanning and emailing involved. And while some folks think Fax is dying, I just don't agree. I think the technology needs to be rebuilt for IP, but I don't think the concept is going to go away anytime soon.
-mark
-- Mark Eissler, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mixtur Interactive, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mixtur.com
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