Comparison Between Internet Fax Services

Internet faxing uses the same principles as facsimile transmission, but it uses a Web interface instead of a fax machine. It can be a flexible, inexpensive option for transmitting documents.

Internet fax services usually assign a fax number to each person who signs up for the service. people can send faxes to this number, and customers can send faxes via e-mail without using a fax machine.

To send a fax through an Internet fax service:

The sender attaches a document to an e-mail message. The document can be a scan of a paper document, or it can be created in a program like Microsoft Word.
The sender addresses the message to the recipient's fax number, followed by the name of the faxing service (for example: [email protected]).
The service translates the attachment so that a fax machine can read it.
The service sends the data across the phone line.
The recipient's fax machine decodes the data and prints the fax.

To receive a document from a traditional fax machine through an Internet fax service:

The sender dials the fax number that the service has assigned to the recipient.
The fax machine translates the data and transmits it over the phone line.
The service receives the data, translates it into an image file and sends the image to the recipient's e-mail address.
The recipient opens the em-ail message and the attachment and views the file.

As getting cheap internet fax service is important, I tried to look for cheap internet fax service that can fax to any country worldwide and can also use PayPal as it is safe payment than credit card. Unfortunately, I could not find cheap fax service for international destination. All internet fax services offer only cheap services to the free zones countries such as usa and Canada.  I could not find cheap service to international destinations.

Maybe the best of my search for faxing to international destination was FAX.PLUS that allows also paypal. But when I tried to subscribe to basic plane using paypal, paypal asked me to give them permission to access my registered credit card, and I refused that and so I could not subscribe. 

I will divide web sites that I had look to their internet fax services in the following groups

1-Part1: Websites that accepts paypal payments and supports faxing to international countries. Some of these are:

Gotfreefax
fax.to
Faxfresh
PamFax.biz
Faxzero
FAX.PLUS

2-Part2: Websites that accepts only credit/debit card payments and supports faxingto internationalcountries

Hellofax
J2 global services vendors. It includes Metrofax,  myfax, smartfax, efax, trustfax,  rapidfax and fax.com

3-Part3: Websites that supports faxingto usa and Canada only

Nextiva
FAXAGE
FAXBetter

In this report, I will compare the internet fax services according to the cost for sending fax to United Arab Emirate. I will assume that I have three pages to be sent to any fax number in UAE.

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Author: Dr. Hidaia Alassouli