| We can not simply do without faxes. We need to | | | | number@serviceprovider's name." |
| send and receive them to promote our business, and | | | | The message sent goes to the service provider's |
| also to further our many interests. Earlier, we | | | | network based server. It is then converted into an |
| depended on the traditional fax machines for the | | | | appropriate file format before sending it to the |
| purpose of sending and receiving a fax. But, now we | | | | recipientÂ's mail box. This is known an e-fax. It is |
| receive fax over Internet. This has proved to be a | | | | basically a new application, and needs some |
| blessing of sorts in many ways. | | | | supplemental software and hardware components |
| Sending or receiving faxes over Internet may be | | | | installations. |
| termed as Internet faxing. Let us see how this Internet | | | | However, some of the service providers offer their |
| faxing works. The customer is required to subscribe to | | | | services free of cost. Many people undertake the free |
| an Internet Fax service. Once he is through, the | | | | service, and if they are not satisfied with the quality of |
| service provider gives him a unique fax number. | | | | the service, they switch off to some other service. |
| This is basically the address at which other individuals | | | | There are other service providers which charge a |
| send their faxes. The subscriber is able to receive the | | | | nominal fee for their service. Such services are flexible |
| fax messages as an email. However, for this he | | | | and superior in quality. |
| needs to create an email account with the domain of | | | | No matter where you are in this world, you can |
| service provider. This system is quite identical to any | | | | receive fax over Internet easily and instantly, in the |
| normal electronic mail. | | | | process, eliminating the time and cost barriers. Internet |
| If an individual wants to send a fax message then that | | | | faxing is an immediate technology that is bridging the |
| individual has to type the message in the text space of | | | | gap between the web-based communication, and |
| the electronic mail, and then press the button send. The | | | | traditional fax machines. |
| mail is addressed to the receiver in the form "fax | | | | |