[aklug] Re: Faxing and cell phones

I offered to set up fax system for AEA so that local anchorage
teachers could send free faxes re ed issues via web interface to all
legislators. I figured I could saturate the legislature with
prefocused poms for $500/ mo total.

There is actually a nice little wikipedia piece on DID-bottom line is
it uses a trunk number to access pbx and rest of number for routing
(bit crude of an expanation, but that's the upshot)

On Aug 20, 2009, at 3:51 PM, Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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