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David Berger's Internet Fax Guide a2.com |
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Updated January 28, 2012
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Compare Nextiva: |
$59/Yr · 500 Monthly Faxes $17.95 · 1,000 Faxes $34.95 · 3,000 Faxes |
Nextiva offers the best Internet fax combo deal at $4.95 a month when you prepay $59.40 a year. By doing so, you'll save 45% off the standard $8.95 rate, which is a good value in itself. The plan offers up to 5 users a whopping 500 combined inbound and outbound fax pages. Additional fax pages cost only 3¢. If your local area is not covered by Nextiva, you'll be given a toll-free fax number at no charge. Nextiva allows you to preview faxes, has great customer support and does not charge a set-up fee.
Other Nextiva plans include a 1,000 fax page plan at 12.95 a month if prepaid annually or $17.95 monthly. Nextiva has a 3,000 fax plan at $29.95 a month if prepaid annually or $34.95 paid annually.
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Local & Toll-Free Numbers | Visit Website |
| 30-Day Free Trial | No Contract Required | Sign up Now |
| Annual Discount | Save 45% | Learn More |
Compare SRFax: |
$2.32 · 200 Monthly Faxes International Faxing |
SRFax has the longest free trial in the industry — 60 days! With this trial, you get 200 combined incoming and outgoing fax pages per month. Once the trial ends, you'll pay only $6.95 a month or $62.55, if paid annually. Or you can elect to sign up to SRFax's special 500 plan at $7.95. Another good deal is SRFax's 25 page plan at $3.29 a month, which includes a toll-free fax number for incoming faxes.
Other SRFax plans include an 800 fax page plan at $15.95 a month and a 1,200 plan at $29.95 a month. SRFax never charges a set up fee. Additional fax pages cost only 8¢ and there are no extra charge for using a toll-free fax number within North America. SRFax is among the few fax services permitting global faxing (international rates apply). And it offers discounts for paying annually and 1-year of online fax storage.
Ultra-lite and Lite plans allow for 9 authorized email addresses and the small & large business plans have no limit for outbound users. You can also cc. (carbon copy) an unlimited number of Email accounts when a fax is sent or received.
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Local & Toll-Free Numbers | Visit Website |
| 60-Day Trial - 200 | No Contract Required | Sign up Now |
| $6.95 Buys 3 Months | 200 Pages/Month | Sign up Now |
| Special $7.95 Plan | 500 Monthly Pages | Sign up Now |
| Special $3.29 Plan | 25 Monthly Pages | Sign up Now |
| Annual Discount | Save 20% | Learn More |
Compare MyFax: |
$10 · 300 Faxes The Plan I Use |
MyFax is the Internet fax service I use and it works great for me. It was very satisfying to call AT&T for the last time — to disconnect my fax line. Since I made the change to MyFax, I've slashed my costs by going paperless. As of March of 2011, MyFax was acquired by J2 Global Communications which also owns companies such as eFax, Rapidfax and many others.
MyFax offers local and toll-free fax numbers throughout the USA, Canada, England and Europe. At $10 a month and no set up fee, MyFax is a good value. This plan allows you to send 100 fax pages and receive 200 fax pages each month, which is more than enough for most people. And if you select the annual payment option during the online sign up process, you'll pay just $8.33 a month. MyFax also has a 400 plan at $20/month and an 800 plan at $40/month.
Additional faxes, including incoming toll-free pages, cost 10¢ each and it's easy to upgrade to a larger plan if needed. MyFax offers 1 year of free fax storage via the Internet and allows up to 5 users per account.
MyFax integrates well with Microsoft Office and there's even a free fax plug-in for ACT! contact manager.
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Local & Toll-Free Numbers | Visit Website |
| 30-Day Free Trial | No Contract Required | Sign up Now |
| Get 3 Months $20 | Buy 2 Get 1 Month Free | Sign up Now |
| Annual Discount | Save 20% | Learn More |
Compare eFax: |
$16.96 · 300 Faxes |
eFax has the largest Internet faxing network and supports over 11 million customers worldwide in 46 different countries, offering both email fax and Internet fax via the Web. eFax, owned by J2 Global Communications, boasts a 99.5% up-time and offers local fax numbers in over 3,300 cities worldwide. Over the past three years, eFax expanded its geographic coverage by about 62%. eFax currently offers toll-free fax numbers throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe. When I called eFax's customer support for information, my questions were answered quickly.
eFax costs $16.95 a month ($14.13 when you sign up to eFax's annual plan). eFax allows up to 5 users to receive 150 fax pages and send up to 150 per month. Overage fax pages cost 10¢ each (20¢ for extra incoming toll-free fax pages). eFax is currently waiving its set-up fee and stores faxes online for up to 1 year free of charge.
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Local & Toll-Free Numbers | Visit Website |
| 30-Day Free Trial | No Contract Required | Sign up Now |
| Annual Discount | Save Nearly 20% | Learn More |
Compare FAXAGE: |
$7.95 · 600 Faxes $19.95 · 5,000 Inbound $64.95 · Unlimited In/Out |
FAXAGE is a cost-effective Internet fax service offering a wide variety of plans. Its basic plan at $3.49 month includes a local or toll-free number and 5¢ faxing.
Other FAXAGE plans include 300 inbound and 300 outbound fax pages at $7.95 a month and a 1,500 fax page plan at $19.95 — all plans offer local and toll-free fax numbers. FAXAGE even offers a 5,000 inbound plan at $19.95 a month. FAXAGE has a low 5¢ per fax minute overage charge on both local and toll-free fax numbers. FAXAGE normally charges a nominal $5.00 set-up fee, but you may use the link below and get a $5 credit when you sign up. FAXAGE also has a plan at $64.95 a month with an average cost of 1.3¢ per fax.
FAXAGE allows for multiple fax numbers per account and forwards faxes to as many email addresses as the user specifies. User management, status reporting, list faxing and other faxing features are all provided via an integrated web interface. In addition to the Website, both email and custom API support are provided for sending and receiving faxes.
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Local & Toll-Free Numbers | Visit Website |
| $5 Savings | Apply Coupon Code | Sign up Now |
Compare GreenFax: |
69¢/Month · Send Only $29.95 · 1,000 Monthly Faxes 2¢ Overage Rate |
GreenFax offers the only $25 prepaid plan for sending faxes with multiple attachments securely and includes easy online access to logs of faxes that you've sent. There is no set up fee and faxes cost just 7¢ for the first page and 5¢ for each additional page within North America. Assuming you amortize the $25 cost over three years, you'll pay just 69¢ a month and get approximately 400 fax pages. This plan never expires, so you can also keep the service indefinitely if you wish.
GreenFax offers a fax plan at $29.95 which includes 1,000 incoming fax pages and the industry's lowest overage rate of just 2¢ when using a local fax number. Local fax numbers are available in over 150 area codes. The rate for sending a fax is 7¢ for the first page and 5¢ for each additional page. This plan includes up to 5 users and has no set-up fee. Low international rates are available for global faxing.
GreenFax has other plans, but these are the ones I like best.
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Local & Toll-Free Numbers | Visit Website |
Compare MaxEmail: |
$24/Yr · 100 Monthly Faxes $24/Qtr · 350 Monthly Faxes |
Receive up to 100 fax pages a month for as little as $2.00 — based on a one-time annual payment of $24.00. All outgoing faxes within the US cost only 5¢ per page; however, the plan only includes an 815 area code incoming fax number. If you're seeking a reliable, low cost, fax service, you've found it. This service works great, dont be afraid to sign up.
MaxEmail also offers a 350 fax plan at $84.00 annual plan (or $9.95 monthly). This plan includes a local or toll-free fax number. MaxEmail's coverage area includes 140 area codes and there is a $10 one-time activation fee.
MaxEmail offers corporate plans with ten users included and no set-up fees.
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Local & Toll-Free Numbers | Visit Website |
| 30-Day Free Trial | No Contract Required | Sign up Now |
| Annual Discount | Save 30% | Learn More |
| Fax Service | Ad Free | In/Out | Fees/Catches | Remarks |
| SRFax | Yes | In/Out | $3.29, Free 800 Fax Number | 25 Pages, Secure + Fax Storage |
| BestFreeFax | Yes | Out Only | Totally Free | 14 Pages Max, Secure Faxing |
| MyFax Free | Yes | Out Only | Requires 3 Emails | Unknown Max Pages |
| FreeFax | Yes | Out Only | Uses TPC.int | Unreliable, Not Secure |
| TPC.int | Yes | Out Only | All Volunteers | Unreliable, Not Secure |
| FreePopFax | No | Out Only | Ads on Fax | Based in France |
| FaxZero | No | Out Only | $1.99 Fee | 3 Pages Max |
| FaxItNice | Yes | Out Only | Requires Fax Token | Unknown Max Pages |
| GotFreeFax | Yes | Out Only | 98¢ to $2.99 Fee | 3 Pages Max |
Compare BestFreeFax.com: |
No Ads, 30 Fax Pages |
BestFreeFax.com is a reliable free Internet fax service without any hidden gimmicks. You may send two, fourteen-page, faxes totally free — without ads being inserted into your fax document! Yes, that's almost thirty pages of free faxing to any destination in the Continental 48 United States, Canada or Hawaii. BestFreeFax.com is easy to use and very reliable. Users always receive an email confirmation with every fax. If you need to send multiple attachments, access to online fax logs or receive the occasional fax, you may want to look at SRFax's $3.29 plan that is reviewed above.
• Send a Free Fax — BestFreeFax.comCompare MyFax Free: |
Requires 3 Emails to Fax Free |
MyFax also offers free Internet faxing services. Users may send a fax to 41 countries in exchange for providing three email addresses, likely for marketing purposses. Give it a try and let me know what you think.
• 'Send' Only Free FaxingCompare GotFreeFax: |
3 Fax Pages Maximim |
GotFreeFax is new and allows you to send a three-page Internet fax within the US or Canada without ads appearing on the cover page. Users may compose an Internet fax by attaching a file or entering text via a web interface. The question is what does the Free Fax service not include that the premium service does? According to GotFreeFax's Website, its Premium Pay-Per-Fax service offers priority delivery, encrypted connection and technical support. User can send 10 fax pages for 98¢, 20 pages for $1.98 and 30 pages for $2.98. GotFreeFax promotes its own paid-fax service and advertises other companies such as RingCentral, which confuses me. I'm seeking feedback from folks who have tried GotFreeFax's free Internet fax service.
• GotFreeFax.comCompareTPC.int: |
Unreliable Free Faxing |
The following information is taken from David Berger's book, The Cheapest Way to Make Phone Calls, Send Fax or Use the Internet (which is available free of charge for download).
The Internet Multicasting Service, TPC.int, is a non-profit organization operating a free email fax service. It relies on volunteers from the U.S., Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, South Korea, New Zealand, Portugal, Sweden, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom, who maintain fax servers in their particular areas, so all phone calls to fax machines are local.
FYI, document number RFC1530 states TPC.int invented Remote Printing (ie, email fax or Internet fax) back in 1993. Since TPC.int relies on volunteers, the reliability is questionable.
To send a free email fax to someone, first create the email message. Use the following address. Replace the italicized variables with the actual person's name and phone number, but keep the punctuation and underline intact
remote-printer.First_Last@13135551234.iddd.tpc.int
Note that the fax number is one continuous string of digits, and it must include the 1 and the area code, even if the fax is just being sent across town. TPC.int's free fax service automatically sends you an email confirmation either stating that the fax transmission was successful or did not go through — probably because there is no local fax server in that area.
Here's a short list of areas covered by the TPC.int fax network: Canada and the United States (+1); Botswana (+267 total coverage); South Africa (+27); Greece (+30); The Netherlands (+31 total coverage); Bulgaria (+359); San Marino (+378 total coverage); Ukraine (+380); Yugoslavia / Serbia and Montenegro (+381 total coverage); Croatia (+385); Italy (+39); Romania (+40); United Kingdom, Isle of Manx and the Channel Islands (+44 total coverage); Sweden (+46 total coverage); Germany (+49); Honduras (+504); Nicaragua (+505 total coverage); Cuba (+53); Brazil (+55); Australia (+61); Indonesia (+62); New Zealand (+64); Singapore (+65 total coverage); Hong Kong (+852 total coverage); China (+86); Taiwan (+886); Turkey (+90); India (+91); Sri Lanka (+94 total coverage) and Lebanon (+961 total coverage).
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Compare FreeFax: |
Uses TPC.int, Unrelaible |
FreeFax uses TPC.int's network of volunteers; hence, it is unreliable. Of all the free Internet fax services I list, TPC.int is the one most people complain about.
• FreeFax.comCompare FreePopFax: |
Ads on Free Fax |
Based in France, FreePopFax allows you to send a free Internet fax anywhere in the US, Canada and 45 other countries. FreePopFax is supported by sponsored ads appearing on the cover page each fax. Since you don't know what ads will be displayed, I'd be a bit cautious. Users may compose a free Internet fax by attaching a file or entering text via a Web interface.
• FreePopFax.comCompare FaxZero: |
$1.99 To Remove Ads on Faxes |
Like FreePopFax, FaxZero is supported by ads appearing on the cover page of each Internet fax; therefore, I'd advise caution. Users may compase and send an Internet fax by attaching a file or entering text via a Web interface. If you pay $1.99, you can have the ads removed. FYI, J2 Global Communications, parent company of eFax, filed suit against the owner of FaxZero for patent infringement (court case number 4:08-cv-04469-WDB).
• FaxZero.comCompare FaxItNice: |
Requires Fax Token |
FaxItNice permits you to send a free Internet fax anywhere in the US, which normally costs $5.00 (using FaxIt Once plan). FaxItNice's free Internet fax service requires you to create an account and secure a free fax token. Additionally, FaxItNice's paid email fax plans are unclear and seemingly expensive. For example, its No Monthly Fee Plan cost you $20 to establish an account, plus $19.99 set-up fee and then it costs 75¢ to receive and 18¢ to send a fax page.
• FaxItNice.comCompare eFax Free: |
Upgraded to Free eFax Plus |
eFax Plus has all of the features of eFax Free, and allows you to send as well as receive faxes by email. Get a 30-day free trial of eFax Plus and choose your own local or toll-free fax number, receive extra fax pages, online storage and more.
• eFax FreeReport unsolicited advertisements via fax to http://www.junkfaxes.org.
Note: A reasonable effort was made to verify that the information above is up to date and accurate: however, due to the nature of the Internet and the fact that faxing services change often, no guarantee is implied or intended. Read Full Disclosure.