[aklug] Re: Faxing and cell phones

From: Shane Spencer <shane@bogomip.com>
Date: Wed Aug 19 2009 - 23:33:20 AKDT

I can help with that btw. I'd love to drum up some interest too. One
of my goals @ work is to figure out what to do with all the DIDs for
Anchorage that I have sitting around :) I could easily hand people
hylafax/avantfax accounts.

I prodded Google to see if they wanted any for their GV product. I'm
not sure if that product speaks fax yet.

- Shane

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Jim Gribbin<jimgribbin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Personally, I avoid faxes whenever possible. You just can't do Real
> Estate without one though. At least, not yet. You start dealing with
> these corporations and they still demand you send and receive faxes.
>
> The only reason I haven't set up with a fax service is that I can't get
> an Alaska phone # on any of then yet. At least not the last time I
> checked.
>
> At typical faxed Real Estate contract tends to run 18 pages. I don't
> think its fair to ask people to send that many pages a couple of times
> per deal long distance. Last time I ran the numbers, the best I could
> come up with long distance was just over $ 0.25 /page plus a monthly
> fee.
>
> I don't suppose AT&T will give people some voip #'s to go along with
> their wireless internet service? Ala - Clearwire. With that combination,
> I'd be tempted to set up my own fax server.
>
> Clearwire, with their voip service, gives you a Linksys 2102 FXS. Or was
> it FXO? I'm always getting them mixed up.
>
> At any rate, the 2102 is advertised as being able to handle fax
> protocols, but I haven't gotten around to trying mine for that as yet.
>
> Jim G
>
> On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 14:36 -0800, barsalou wrote:
>> Are any of you using faxing services because all you have is a cell phone?
>>
>> If not, what other solutions are folks using when you want to receive
>> or send a fax?
>>
>> Mike B.
>>
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