We moved to VoIP telephone service quite awhile ago. Our service is through our mobile phone provider, T-Mobile. We get unlimited local and long-distance for $10 per month. When combined with our free Google Voice account our home phone line quality and features are significantly better than our old AT&T service at a small fraction of the cost.
Nevertheless, Janet would not agree to abandoning our landline. So our AT&T number was reduced to the rock-bottom lowest cost--measured rate residence service--and we dedicated the line to a multifunction printer/scanner/fax we already owned. It was supposed to cost us about $7.50 per month.
Right away the cost started creeping up. We get or send maybe one fax a month, so our use of the line is minimal. As the cost rose, my irritation with the AT&T service grew.
Today we got our monthly invoice from AT&T; $19.37! This was our highest cost yet because of a long-distance fax our son sent to complete paperwork for the new job he is getting with the U.S. Foreign Service which added $2.78 to the already outrageous cost of our FAX line.
That was the tipping point. Janet agreed, it was time to do the smart thing and move to an Internet-based FAX service.
After a bit of research I chose FAXAGE at faxage dot com. $3.49 per month, plus $0.05 per minute for incoming and outgoing faxes sent on high-speed commercial fax equipment. No ink or supplies needed and 99.99% reliability frees us from the complexity of managing a physical fax machine and the phone line as well as offering the independence to receive and send faxes from any location via the Internet, even with my G1 mobile phone!
Incoming faxes are delivered to the FAXAGE Web site and to unlimited email addresses in either either Adobe Acrobat PDF or TIFF image formats. Outgoing faxes can be sent directly from any email account through the FAXAGE email fax gateway or can be sent using the FAXAGE Web site. We can send a FAX using any of the following document formats:
