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These services permit you to send faxes using a Web browser or e-mail without the need to install any special software.
MyFax
MyFax is an top notch Internet Fax Service used in thousands of home based offices and small businesses dependent on reliable fax communications. MyFax works with existing email systems and doesn't require you to install any new software or hardware. By using the MyFax Internet Fax Service, you'll reduce costs and eliminate missing fax pages.
At only $10 a month or $110 per year, MyFax's Internet Fax Service is a good deal. For just pennies a day, you'll be able to send 100 outgoing fax pages and receive 200 incoming pages each month. And you'll get your very own toll-free number. "MyFax offers the best best value in this round up," states PC Magazine.
RapidFax allows you to send and receive faxes via e-mail and the Web. At $9.95 per month and no set up fee, RapidFax gives you a local or toll-free number (at no extra cost) for incoming faxes, including 200 incoming and 100 outgoing pages. Additional pages cost only 8 cents each. Using your existing email software and account, simply address an email message to fax number@rapidfax.com. Add any attachments as you normally would and click "send". RapidFax.com will convert your e-mail to a fax and deliver it. You will receive a confirmation via email your fax was delivered. It's that easy...
eFax claims to offer the largest digital fax network in the world with a 99.5% up-time. It supports over 10 million customers worldwide. eFax offers you the reliability and security of faxing with the ease and convenience of email. Because eFax is so large, you can select a local fax number in over 2,000 cities worldwide. And you can get a toll-free number that works in the U.S., Canada or Europe. eFax offers a 30-day free email to fax trial, allowing you to receive up to 130 fax pages and send up to 30. After the trial, eFax costs $16.95 and now includes a recurring $3 credit.
FAXAGE is a very cost-effective Internet fax solution; however, it has a limited coverage area. FAXAGE offers plans starting at $3.49 and for $7.99 a month, you get 150 incoming as well as 150 outgoing faxes, including a low 5-cent per minute overage charge on both local and toll-free numbers. Designed for business use, FAXAGE allows for multiple fax numbers per account and forwards faxes to as many email addresses as the user specifies. User management, status reporting, list faxing and other features are all provided via an integrated web interface. In addition to the Website, both email and custom API support are provided for sending and receiving faxes.
Vonage's small business plan, at $49.99/month, offers unlimited local and long distance calling anywhere in the US, Canada and Puerto Rico. Plus it includes a dedicated fax line with unlimited incoming faxes and 500 minutes/month of outgoing fax service. Extra outgoing fax minutes are only 3.9¢/minute.
Vonage's residential plan, at $24.99/month (plus $9.99/month for fax) gets you unlimited incoming faxes and 250 minutes of outgoing fax service--extra minutes are just 3.9¢/minute. Of course, this price also includes unlimited local and long distance calling anywhere in the US, Canada and Puerto Rico.
NOTE: You may want to take advantage of the free trials offered by other fax providers listed above.
Vonage Offers 1 Month Free, No Credit Card Required.
The following information is taken from David Berger's book, which is availble free of charge. Click here to download it..
The Internet Multicasting Service is a non-profit organization that operates a free e-mail-to-fax service. They rely on volunteers from the U.S., Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, South Korea, New Zealand, Portugal, Sweden, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom, who maintain fax servers in their particular areas, so all phone calls to fax machines are local.
To send a fax to someone, first create the e-mail message. Then use the following address, replacing the italicized variables with the actual person's name and phone number, but keeping the punctuation (including the underline) intact:
remote-printer.First_Last@13135551234.iddd.tpc.int
Note that the phone number is one continuous string of numbers, and it must include the 1 and the area code, even if the fax is just being sent across town. The service automatically sends you an e-mail confirmation either stating that the fax transmission was successful or did not go through because there is no local fax server in that area.
