6 Important Facts about Internet Fax
The following list applys to all online fax services.
- Internet Fax can be sent and received via email or via an online portal with some companies
- Toll-free fax numbers cannot receive faxes from foreign countries. This is the case with all 800/888 toll-free numbers, even for phone calls. If you need to receive faxes from a non-US country (Canada has the same issue) then you should get a local number.
- Internet Fax is fast but NOT instantaneous. The speed of sending and receiving faxes depends upon numerous things such as Internet traffic, how often your fax service batches their faxes, how many ports and how much hardware your provider has, and if the receiving fax machine is out of paper or just plain busy. (note that with Internet fax it will keep trying, usually up to 24 hours)
- Using an online fax service will not stop fax spam all on its own. Some companies build and maintain list of spammers and do a pretty good job but, the benefit is mainly that you won’t miss a fax due to fax spam and you won’t have to waist paper and ink printing them out.
- Most fax companies have limits on how long they will store faxes online for you. Most will let you store faxes online forever for a nominal fee.
- Many fax companies require you to use the country code when entering a fax number. The country code for US bound faxes is 1. So you should put a 1 in front of all your US bound faxes. It won’t hurt.
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