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How does fax2email work?
The sender sends faxes the document to your free 086 fax to email numberThe Fax2Email service converts the fax into a TIFF or PDF email attachmentYou receive the fax via your emailSave, print or forward your faxesGet an 0866 or 0865 fax number for life
You receive a premium rate 086 number, issued by Telkom. Although Telkom does not provide you with the fax to email service, Telkom will supply the service provider with the 086 fax number. The service provider iwll then route your 086 faxes through their servers, convert the fax into a TIFF image or PDF file.
Since the 086 number does not get routed to a fixed telephone fax line, the free fax to email number moved with you. You even receive your free faxes when abroad.
Save paper with your free fax number
Frustrated receiving spammy faxes that promote something you don't really want? With a free fax to email, your spam faxes are instantly reduced. Since 086 fax numbers are premium numbers, spammers are less likely to fax you. But if they do fax you, deleting the fax is as easy as pressing the delete key in your mailbox.
Paying for paper, rescanning the fax and resending to your staff, friends and family, or saving the fax is not longer a problem, simply press forward, save or delete in your email.
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We are an email away, and will provide you with the best service in South Africa. With two points of contact, us and the supplier, when signing up with us, you get better service than other providers. You may contact either contact, and we will address your concerns right away.
How much does free fax to email cost the sender?
The 086 fax to email number is provided by Telkom, and the rate is set by Telkom. It is a premium rate, and the cost may be viewed on the Telkom website.
Wikipedia has the following about free fax to email
Online faxing (also known as Internet fax, digital fax and e fax) utilizes an online fax service provider to convert a fax transmission into file that can be received via email or a fax machine.
Online fax services bridge the gap between the traditional fax technology and internet transmission of documents.
When you sign up with an online fax service, you will be assigned a dedicated fax phone number that will convert incoming faxes to electric document that are automatically sent to your computer or fax machine. Document is converted to TIFF or PDF format and attached to an e-mail in MIME format.
The service also allow you to send document like Word, PDF's, or pictures file.
What is TIFF?
TIFF is a standard image format that allows many pages to be saved in a single file. TIFF (originally standing for Tagged Image File Format) may be viewed by most image viewers, and is printed like a normal image. TIFF is used by desktop publishers to publish articles and join multiple images into a single file.
Our free fax to email provides users with a fax that is in TIFF ot PDF format.
What is PDF?
Portable Document Format (PDF) is an open standard for document exchange.
This file format was created by Adobe Systems in 1993 and is cross-platform compatible. You may view, print and save PDF files on the PC as well as on the Apple computers. The PDF viewer is free to download from the Adobe website.
Free fax to email in colour
Faxes are black and white only, they can only send black and white images to another fax machine, colour faxing is therefore not possible.
