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’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.