Some paleolithic institutions like Banks are still using fax and refuse to adapt themself to the modern world using emails with their customers.
The problem is that no one is really using a fax anymore. Even those multi function printer are a pain to use [printing, putting the doc in the tray, dialing,....]
So i started to look for services to send and receive fax for free in Israel. I called netvision. After 6 sales representative, they figured out they had such service but 1. it is ridiculously expensive 2. you need to use their Paleolithic own email system
I started to look on the web. you can find plenty of so called free email to fax service. But they are not free. And force you to buy a monthly subscription.
I really found 2 services for sending and receiving faxes from your computer (meaning sending files directly from your computer)
- FreeFax.co.il [make abstraction of the endless number of google ads] Works great TO SEND ONLY
- MyFax.co.il Works great to RECEIVE FAX on your email. they will provide a temporary fax number routing to your email [take the right blue option]
I used them both and they work great. and are really free. BUT...
There is no single service doing all of it (send + fax) in a clean way. Fax is a commodity, like Voice. I am sure there is space to build a killer free iphone app that will do all of that using a stupid fax server. Sending a fax is not more expensive at cost than a min of voice.
The first guy to do that, will end up #1 in the App Store. I guarantee
