Does any service in the USA support mobile faxing?

Jason McGehee

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Mar 29, 2002, 2:32:54 AM3/29/02

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Does any service in the USA support mobile faxing. A friend of mine in
Poland has a phone that can receive faxes and forward them to an email
account, a another mobile phone, or forward to a fax machine. This would be
a great tool.

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Earl F. Parrish

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Mar 29, 2002, 4:03:01 AM3/29/02

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This is not very useful in America since fax machines cost less than
cellular telephones. One cannot send faxes from cellular phone since they
have no scanners? Why could not the first party send the fax directly to
the destination fax machine?

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Mar 29, 2002, 4:32:17 AM3/29/02

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"Earl F. Parrish" <efp...@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> This is not very useful in America since fax machines cost less than
> cellular telephones. One cannot send faxes from cellular phone since they
> have no scanners? Why could not the first party send the fax directly to
> the destination fax machine?

It is very useful as you cannot lug a fax machine around with you !

Using a laptop computer connected to a cellphone, I can sent and receive
faxes anywhere I choose. No need for a scanner, as the faxes I usually send
are usually just typed up in MS Word and sent directly from the laptop.

It is dying fortunately due to the increasing use of email, but some
companies require a signature, so they send me a fax (which I open on the
PC, and attach an image of my signature to it - and send straight back
without ever putting pen to paper !)

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James Knott

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Mar 29, 2002, 7:58:36 AM3/29/02

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Jason McGehee wrote:

> Does any service in the USA support mobile faxing. A friend of mine in
> Poland has a phone that can receive faxes and forward them to an email
> account, a another mobile phone, or forward to a fax machine. This would
> be a great tool.

Many digital cell phones emulate a modem. All you have to do, is connect
one of those to a notebook computer and use your favourite fax software.

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Earl F. Parrish

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Mar 29, 2002, 10:25:05 AM3/29/02

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I don't think that is what he was talking about. He was talking about the
telephone receiving faxes directly not through an attached computer.

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Michael Thaler

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Mar 29, 2002, 8:30:52 PM3/29/02

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I never made use of the service - but a few years ago GTE/Verizon (Bay
Area) let you receive a fax and store it and then let you download it by
calling a fax machine when you got to one.

...mike

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Mar 29, 2002, 11:54:24 PM3/29/02

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On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 07:32:54 GMT, "Jason McGehee"
<jasonm...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Does any service in the USA support mobile faxing. A friend of mine in
>Poland has a phone that can receive faxes and forward them to an email
>account, a another mobile phone, or forward to a fax machine. This would be
>a great tool.

Cingular sells Rim handhelds, and if you get the One Connect service,
It allows you to receive faxes at your 1-800 number, and then "print"
them on any fax machine you choose.

Also Voicestream has "FaxMail", which gives you a second cell number
for receiving faxes. This service does not work very well though. Do a
search in the alt.cellular.gsm.carriers.voicestream group for more
info.

Also www.onebox.com has a service that gives you a 1-800 number and
you can receive your faxes in the email account (x...@onebox.com, for
example). Used to be free for many years but they recently started
charging for the service.

Hope this helps.

Stuart G. Friedman

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Mar 30, 2002, 10:23:28 AM3/30/02

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I have a personal number from accessline.com that can receive faxes and
which I can then forward (via phone to any fax machine) and by computer to a
fax machine or e-mail. I will even put its own coversheet addressed to me
on top of the old fax sheet (optional). You can also pull the same function
off with efax's pay service efax-send if you have wireless web access
(simply forward the incoming efax to a real fax).

You can send faxes from any data enabled GSM phone using Palm Pilot, Pocket
PC, or laptop and a data enabled GSM phone as long as you have fax software.

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Earl F. Parrish

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Mar 30, 2002, 10:37:56 AM3/30/02

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Everyone knows that you can use a cellular phone like a landline phone. The
original poster discussed using the cellular phone alone. If you do not
have your external device attached an incoming fax is handled like a voice
call and you have no way to send a fax. Why is everyone missing the point
of the original post? There is no cellular phone which can receive a fax,
display it, store it or send it to another party without intervention by an
external device or storage at some external location.

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Paul

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Mar 30, 2002, 1:11:10 PM3/30/02

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"Earl F. Parrish" <efp...@verizon.net> wrote in message

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> There is no cellular phone which can receive a fax,
> display it, store it or send it to another party without intervention
> by an external device or storage at some external location.

Wow, that means that my Nokia 9110 always lied to me...

Paul

LaMar Communications

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Mar 30, 2002, 6:29:21 PM3/30/02

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You may want to take a look at efax www.efax.com which will allow a fax
sent to your email address...this is a free service.

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SJS

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Mar 30, 2002, 10:38:21 PM3/30/02

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That would be a great answer, but the original poster specifically asked if
there is any SERVICE that can support mobile faxing, which I know
Voicestream does, with its enhanced voicemail (I've actually done this), and
I believe Cingular does.

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Amil

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Mar 30, 2002, 10:40:17 PM3/30/02

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Nextel does. Via its wireless web services.

Amil

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Al Klein

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Mar 31, 2002, 9:53:22 PM3/31/02

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On Sat, 30 Mar 2002 10:23:28 -0500, "Stuart G. Friedman"
<Stu.Ign...@Crimappdotcom.na> posted in alt.cellular:

>You can send faxes from any data enabled GSM phone using Palm Pilot, Pocket
>PC, or laptop and a data enabled GSM phone as long as you have fax software.

Or CDMA phone or TDMA phone.
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Stuart G. Friedman

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Apr 1, 2002, 9:34:16 PM4/1/02

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I agree that data over CDMA works well. Data over CDMA has proven
problematic, particularly given the fact that ATT has insisted on using
alternative solutions to data over TDMA. At the moment, data on the TDMA
networks seems like a bit of a cludge.

Stu
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Stuart Friedman

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Apr 6, 2002, 9:48:39 PM4/6/02

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I meant that data of TDMA has proben more problematic.

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