[aklug] Re: Faxing and cell phones

From: Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com>
Date: Thu Aug 20 2009 - 15:51:07 AKDT

What exactly do you mean by DIDs for the local area. Are these voip #s
that could be pointed somewhere?

On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 23:33 -0800, Shane Spencer wrote:
> 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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