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Free Fax to email

How does fax2email work?

The sender sends faxes the document to your free 086 fax to email number

The Fax2Email service converts the fax into a TIFF or PDF email attachment

You receive the fax via your email

Save, print or forward your faxes

Setting up a free fax to email number is quick and easy

How do I get a free fax to email number?

Signing up to a free fax to email number is quick and easy. Simply have the following informaiton available to complete our fax to email form:

- Your full name

- Your telephone number

- The email you want to use to receive your faxes

What happens after I have signed up for a free fax number

You will receive an email from teh fax server, included in your email is:

- Your new fax to email number (086 fax number)

- A Telephone number to the fax to email support centre

- The fax to email terms of use (you may use fax to email for almost anything, private or personal, at no cost to you)

How does someone send a fax to a fax to email number?

- Give your free 086 fax to email number to your clients and family

- They send faxes to your free fax number

Is Free Fax To Email really free?

- Yes, free fax to email is free to you, the reciever.

- However, the sender does pay the Telkom "Fax To Email" rates, which is higher than normal phone call charges.

- The rates are reasonable and the cost to send a fax is affordable and cheap.

- The benefits of receiving your faxes in your email outweigh the costs.

How does fax to email work?

Why is fax2email free? How can it be free? Why would anybody offer a free fax2email service? There must be a catch?

Receive free fax2emails
Your faxes are sent to your email at no charge to you, the receiver
No hardware or software required (other than your email and an image or pdf viewer)
No special training required
No in-house IT department to support the service

It is very easy to set up a free fax2email.

Once you have signed up for a free fax2email, you get a free fax number which starts with 0865 or 0866 fax2email number.
People then send you a fax and you receive the fax as an attachment to the email you specified when you signed up.

This is great idea as you save on paper and you don't need an extra Telkom line for your fax.

You can also receive your faxes anywhere in the world where you have access to your emails.

There are many benefits to the fax recipient, but why is fax2email free?

The answer lies with the sender. Fax2emails are charged at premium Telkom rates.
The rates are still very reasonable and it offers convenience and reliability to both sender and receiver.

Wikipedia definitions of Fax to email may be found under "Internet Fax" or "online faxing":

"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"