Free internet FAX services were all the rage back in the dot com hay days but most of them have gone the way of the Ford Edsel. There are still a hand full free internet FAX services available but the services that they provide are extremely limited. On the other hand, there’s a plethora of low cost, paid internet FAX services that offer many more options to the user.
One of the major drawbacks to using one of the totally free internet Fax services is that they either limit you to sending fax or receiving faxes, most of the free services still available don’t allow you to both send and receive faxes. One of the best free services that’s still available is Free Fax. Free Fax provides you with your own free fax number and permits you to both send and receive virtual faxes to and from virtually anywhere in the world. You can try the service before you become a member of FreeFax by clicking on this link http://www.freefax.com/ . FreeFax is totally supported by advertizing which is how they are able to provide you with complete faxing services at zero cost to you. FreeFax is powered by the International tpc network of fax servers located all around the world which guarantees you dependable service no matter where you may be. With FreeFax you will receive an email confirmation when the recipient receives your fax. The major downside to using the FreeFax service is that the recipients of your faxes will receive cover-sheets that consists of one-third of a page of advertizements It’s those advertizements that accompany your faxes that pays for the service. FreeFax became operational in August of 2000 and over 6,000 faxes were sent and received during their first six days of operations.
Of the paid Internet Fax services, eFax is my personal pick and the one I use myself. For as little as $16.95 a month, you can receive up to 130 incoming faxes free of charge, each additional incoming fax will cost you a mere $0.15. All outgoing faxes will cost you $0.10. Toll free fax numbers are available but if you select a toll free number, all incoming faxes are $0.20 and there are no free faxes. The really nice thing about eFax is that you receive a local fax number and you get a 30 day free trial. If you decide to go with the 30-day free rial option, you are allowed to receive faxes at a maximum of five different email addresses and send up to 30 fax pages. In either case they will waive any setup fees.
Efax is a full service faxing service with
1.Full featured fax software. With eFax software you can annotate, sign, highlight, zoom, forward, store, convert to pdf formats, and even add an electronic signature in a flash.
2.With eFax you have the option of choosing a local, toll free, or international fax number.
3.With eFax your voice mail messages are automatically converted to files and emailed to you as file attachments. If you prefer to listen to your voice mail you can download eFax messenger software http://www.efax.com/products/internet-fax?tab=downloads
4.eFax is direct faxing software that allows you to fax directly from over 31 different applications, applications like MS Word, MS Works, etc.
5.eFax allows you to store copies of incoming and outgoing faxes for up to 2 years
6.eFax offers total privacy by encrypting all your faxes
Give eFax a test drive for 30 days. If you don’t think that it’s worth the $16.95 monthly service charge plus the low charge per fax, simply cancel before the 30 day trial period ends. Personally, I wouldn’t be without it. With most faxing services charging $1.50 to $1.75 a page, faxing out one short story manuscript would cost me more than the monthly service charge. To give it a test drive click here http://www.efax.com/efax-signup/fax-numbers?OFFERCODE=EFAX_PLUS_1695_1MONTHRECUR_3SEND&CMP=LP1
