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Fax over cellular using the Internet

Posted: 03-21-2005, 02:57 PM
John Navas
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Although it is possible to fax over cellular with a dial-up type connection
(CSD in the case of GSM), it's slow, difficult to set up and use, and isn't
available from all carriers in all areas.

An alternative for cellular with email or Internet access is to use a fax
service. I'm currently using two such services:

INCOMING FAX

eFax <http://www.efax.com/>
Supports fax-to-email (and vice versa). No charge for eFax Free (non-local
number, receive-only) if you're willing to put with occasional marketing
email.

OUTGOING FAX

Fax1 <http://fax1.com/>
Supports email-to-fax and web-to-fax, as well as proprietary Internet software
(FaxBlaster). Free to sign up with $1 trial credit. No monthly charge.
Prepay credit never expires. $0.12/page (successfully delivered) to the USA

I'm compiling this information for the cellular webpages I publish. If anyone
knows of comparable or better services, please follow-up here. Thank you.

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Re: Fax over cellular using the Internet
Posted: 03-21-2005, 04:11 PM
FWIW, efax sucks - if your free efax number gets more than 20 spam faxes a
month they cancel the account if you refuse to upgrade to their paid plan.
And yes, you will get tons of spam faxes after you've had the number a
couple of years (I had one since they started and lost it last year because
of spam faxes). Reporting the spam using their form is a PITA (takes a good
10 min per spam, probably longer if using a cell phone connection to access
the efax site) but necessary if you don't want all of the spam faxes to
count against you. I do not recommend them at all.

Send2fax.com is an email and web based fax service that gives you an 800#
and is good for both in and outbound. My account is $1 service fee a month,
but new subscribers will pay $1.95 service fee. Per page fee is 15 cents for
successful in or outbound faxes. (They have high volume plans available
too - at lower rates than the efax paid plans.) if you send many faxes, it's
well worth $2 a month to have both in and outbound faxes using the same fax
system.



"John Navas" <spamfilter0@navasgroup.com> wrote in message
news:WhB%d.11677$m31.121967@typhoon.sonic.net...
> Although it is possible to fax over cellular with a dial-up type
> connection
> (CSD in the case of GSM), it's slow, difficult to set up and use, and
> isn't
> available from all carriers in all areas.
>
> An alternative for cellular with email or Internet access is to use a fax
> service. I'm currently using two such services:
>
> INCOMING FAX
>
> eFax <http://www.efax.com/>
> Supports fax-to-email (and vice versa). No charge for eFax Free
> (non-local
> number, receive-only) if you're willing to put with occasional marketing
> email.
>
> OUTGOING FAX
>
> Fax1 <http://fax1.com/>
> Supports email-to-fax and web-to-fax, as well as proprietary Internet
> software
> (FaxBlaster). Free to sign up with $1 trial credit. No monthly charge.
> Prepay credit never expires. $0.12/page (successfully delivered) to the
> USA
>
> I'm compiling this information for the cellular webpages I publish. If
> anyone
> knows of comparable or better services, please follow-up here. Thank you.
>
> --
> Best regards, HELP FOR CINGULAR GSM & SONY ERICSSON PHONES:
> John Navas <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/#Cingular>



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John Navas
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Re: Fax over cellular using the Internet
Posted: 03-21-2005, 05:37 PM
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In <DmC%d.178$S46.83@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net > on Mon, 21 Mar 2005
16:11:15 GMT, "cricket" <cricket23@myrealbox.com> wrote:

>FWIW, efax sucks - if your free efax number gets more than 20 spam faxes a
>month they cancel the account if you refuse to upgrade to their paid plan.
>And yes, you will get tons of spam faxes after you've had the number a
>couple of years (I had one since they started and lost it last year because
>of spam faxes). Reporting the spam using their form is a PITA (takes a good
>10 min per spam, probably longer if using a cell phone connection to access
>the efax site) but necessary if you don't want all of the spam faxes to
>count against you. I do not recommend them at all.

FWIW, I've never had a single spam fax on my eFax Free number, and I've had it
for quite a long time. (You may be giving your fax number out to the wrong
people.) If I did start getting spam faxes, I would simply change the number.

>Send2fax.com is an email and web based fax service that gives you an 800#
>and is good for both in and outbound. My account is $1 service fee a month,
>but new subscribers will pay $1.95 service fee. Per page fee is 15 cents for
>successful in or outbound faxes. (They have high volume plans available
>too - at lower rates than the efax paid plans.) if you send many faxes, it's
>well worth $2 a month to have both in and outbound faxes using the same fax
>system.

Why would I care about using the same fax system? My current setup of eFax
for free inbound and Fax1 for low-cost outbound is dead simple and works fine.

>"John Navas" <spamfilter0@navasgroup.com> wrote in message
>news:WhB%d.11677$m31.121967@typhoon.sonic.net.. .
>> Although it is possible to fax over cellular with a dial-up type
>> connection
>> (CSD in the case of GSM), it's slow, difficult to set up and use, and
>> isn't
>> available from all carriers in all areas.
>>
>> An alternative for cellular with email or Internet access is to use a fax
>> service. I'm currently using two such services:
>>
>> INCOMING FAX
>>
>> eFax <http://www.efax.com/>
>> Supports fax-to-email (and vice versa). No charge for eFax Free
>> (non-local
>> number, receive-only) if you're willing to put with occasional marketing
>> email.
>>
>> OUTGOING FAX
>>
>> Fax1 <http://fax1.com/>
>> Supports email-to-fax and web-to-fax, as well as proprietary Internet
>> software
>> (FaxBlaster). Free to sign up with $1 trial credit. No monthly charge.
>> Prepay credit never expires. $0.12/page (successfully delivered) to the
>> USA
>>
>> I'm compiling this information for the cellular webpages I publish. If
>> anyone
>> knows of comparable or better services, please follow-up here. Thank you.
>>
>> --
>> Best regards, HELP FOR CINGULAR GSM & SONY ERICSSON PHONES:
>> John Navas <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/#Cingular>
>
>

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Re: Fax over cellular using the Internet
Posted: 03-21-2005, 08:55 PM
John Navas wrote:
> [POSTED TO alt.cellular.attws - REPLY ON USENET PLEASE]
>
> In <DmC%d.178$S46.83@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net > on Mon, 21 Mar
> 2005 16:11:15 GMT, "cricket" <cricket23@myrealbox.com> wrote:
>
>> FWIW, efax sucks - if your free efax number gets more than 20 spam
>> faxes a month they cancel the account if you refuse to upgrade to
>> their paid plan. And yes, you will get tons of spam faxes after
>> you've had the number a couple of years (I had one since they
>> started and lost it last year because of spam faxes). Reporting the
>> spam using their form is a PITA (takes a good 10 min per spam,
>> probably longer if using a cell phone connection to access the efax
>> site) but necessary if you don't want all of the spam faxes to count
>> against you. I do not recommend them at all.
>
> FWIW, I've never had a single spam fax on my eFax Free number, and
> I've had it for quite a long time. (You may be giving your fax
> number out to the wrong people.) If I did start getting spam faxes,
> I would simply change the number.
>
I'll have to agree only to add I've never had to change my eFax number in
the 6 years I've had it. I've only received a couple span faxes in the
beginning, but that dried up not long after.

Besides, I can't give it up now. I got it in Lakewood CA and received a
Maryland number. I now live in Delaware. Go figure ;-)


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Re: Fax over cellular using the Internet
Posted: 03-22-2005, 06:27 AM
"cricket" <cricket23@myrealbox.com> wrote:

>FWIW, efax sucks - if your free efax number gets more than 20 spam faxes a
>month they cancel the account if you refuse to upgrade to their paid plan.
>And yes, you will get tons of spam faxes after you've had the number a
>couple of years (I had one since they started and lost it last year because
>of spam faxes).

I've had a free efax number for three years and only 2 spam faxes
total in all that time.


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Re: Fax over cellular using the Internet
Posted: 03-23-2005, 12:21 PM
"cricket" <cricket23@myrealbox.com> wrote in message
newsmC%d.178$S46.83@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink .net...
> FWIW, efax sucks - if your free efax number gets more than 20 spam faxes a

Agreed.. efax is the worst. I signed up and they the flood gates of smap
email started. They sent me advertizments for any and everything every day.
I had used them many years ago, when they were still starting out, and they
only advertizment they had was in their fax reader. Now their software
installs all kinds of crap on your system.


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Re: Fax over cellular using the Internet
Posted: 03-23-2005, 04:00 PM
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In <dbd0e.1909$gI5.1110@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink. net> on Wed, 23 Mar 2005
12:21:29 GMT, "Todd Copeland" <todd@copelandhome.net> wrote:

>"cricket" <cricket23@myrealbox.com> wrote in message
>newsmC%d.178$S46.83@newsread3.news.atl.earthlin k.net...
>> FWIW, efax sucks - if your free efax number gets more than 20 spam faxes a
>
>Agreed.. efax is the worst. I signed up and they the flood gates of smap
>email started. They sent me advertizments for any and everything every day.

Perhaps things have changed, because I'm getting no more than about one eFax
ad message per week, most of which are taken care of by my spam filtering. To
me it seems a small price to pay for a free fax number. What's your
alternative?

>I had used them many years ago, when they were still starting out, and they
>only advertizment they had was in their fax reader. Now their software
>installs all kinds of crap on your system.

I'm using eFax Messenger 2.0, which has no ads. You can get it from
<http://appdb.codeweavers.com/appview.php?appId=667&versionId=887>.

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Stuart Friedman
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Re: Fax over cellular using the Internet
Posted: 04-20-2005, 04:15 AM
k-7.net has a free e-fax type inbound number, but you can only get a
Washington State number.

"Drewdawg" <nope@not.here> wrote in message
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> John Navas wrote:
>> [POSTED TO alt.cellular.attws - REPLY ON USENET PLEASE]
>>
>> In <DmC%d.178$S46.83@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net > on Mon, 21 Mar
>> 2005 16:11:15 GMT, "cricket" <cricket23@myrealbox.com> wrote:
>>
>>> FWIW, efax sucks - if your free efax number gets more than 20 spam
>>> faxes a month they cancel the account if you refuse to upgrade to
>>> their paid plan. And yes, you will get tons of spam faxes after
>>> you've had the number a couple of years (I had one since they
>>> started and lost it last year because of spam faxes). Reporting the
>>> spam using their form is a PITA (takes a good 10 min per spam,
>>> probably longer if using a cell phone connection to access the efax
>>> site) but necessary if you don't want all of the spam faxes to count
>>> against you. I do not recommend them at all.
>>
>> FWIW, I've never had a single spam fax on my eFax Free number, and
>> I've had it for quite a long time. (You may be giving your fax
>> number out to the wrong people.) If I did start getting spam faxes,
>> I would simply change the number.
>>
> I'll have to agree only to add I've never had to change my eFax number in
> the 6 years I've had it. I've only received a couple span faxes in the
> beginning, but that dried up not long after.
>
> Besides, I can't give it up now. I got it in Lakewood CA and received a
> Maryland number. I now live in Delaware. Go figure ;-)
>
>


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