Question about land line phones

[TOYMINATOR]

I find that I use my land line very little these days and it is a monthly bill ($60 bucks per month) that i'm just basically pissin away. So I am wanting to just dicontinue my service and use my cell as my only source of telecommunication.

The only thing that concerns me as far as doing away with my land line is that I have a fax machine that I use for business purposes. If I do away with my land line my fax machine will be pretty much useless.

I have been told you can fax documents from your pc to a fax number and I am interested in this. I assume it is a software you puchase for your pc correct? Can somebody recommend something to use? Also, will I still be able to receive faxes even though I do not have a land line anymore? How does it work as far as somebody tring to send you a fax?

Any info is appreciated!

[Marshytaco]

That's a good question. I wonder if one of those internet based phone companies like Vonage could help with this. I don't know anything about this, but thought I would at least throw this out there. I know the company I work for uses some program called FaxServe and we can send and receive faxes through our email system.
Not that that was any help.....

[Marcopolo]

Off the top of my head I can't think of what we use but it is a email/fax. A few of the big shots have them and it just like taking a paper document (your fax) scanning it in and sending it through then software to a fax number. I have heard of ways that you can receive a fax to a phone number and it come to your email, but I think you still have to have a service.

[nastynate]

i've used several... eFax is the biggest. that's what we use at work.

I developed some software a while back that would read the fax inbox and pull down the attachments (for work)... i used http://www.aircomusa.com/... cheap, fast.

also:
http://www.google.com/search?q=fax+services


edit: as long as you don't need DSL, you'll be fine... that's the ONLY reason i have a land line. SBC sucks. I'm on their cheapest plan (~$15/month)

[Cmartinez95]

You can probably pay for a fax service to send/receive your faxes and then forward them to your email, but I don't know what that will cost you. We have a setup at work that will receive faxes and forward them via email, but it still requires that the fax server have a land line. Is that the cost of the most basic line? I only have a land line for my house alarm, and with call waiting, ID and other features we're only paying about 40 a month.

[nastynate]

Correct Carlos, most fax services will email it to you

The cost is around 10-30$ per month depending on usage.

And yes, they will give you your own fax number within your area code for incoming faxes.

The only real downside is you probably can't keep your existing fax number.

[TEJASYOTA]

Try eFax.com
http://www.efax.com
They have different levels of activation, I have the basic that gives you the ability to send a receive faxes - but only a limited number, sorry I forgotten how many.
They also have payable accounts from $13/mo to $20/mo, depending on your requirements. I have tried them a few times and it works.

Unfortunately I can not get rid of my hardline, my alarm to the house is wired to it. I know there are communication boxes for it, but they are not cheap. I also know that VOIP still have growing pains of calls being dropped. So until the price drops and quality increases, I am stuck with three modes of communication.

Let us know which fax service you choose.

[TOYMINATOR]

Well, out of all my faxes sent and received, 98% of them are ones that I send...I rarely ever receive any (maily send invoices to clients). So if there is a program I can use that I can send a document from my PC to a fax machine, that would be fine. If/when somebody needed to send me something they could either e-mail it to me or they would just have to send it by snail mail.

[hossmaster]

One of my friends told the phone company when he moved into an appartment that he needed the phone strictly for internet access. His phone bill was only 16 bucks or so a month. That was a couple of years ago and not sure if it will still work, but worth a shot. maybe

[nastynate]

One of my friends told the phone company when he moved into an appartment that he needed the phone strictly for internet access. His phone bill was only 16 bucks or so a month. That was a couple of years ago and not sure if it will still work, but worth a shot. maybe


i do the same thing. 10$ of it is taxes.