How Does It Work

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 receive 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