 Quick Guide To Free Fax and Phone Numbers
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Randy Lee -
your Mailshell guide to:
Free Fax and Phone Numbers
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What are Free Fax and Phone Numbers?
There are many services that offer free fax and phone numbers. When you subscribe, you will receive a random phone number. For a small fee, most services offer more advanced services such as a local area code phone number. Many authors offer the following features:
- Incoming faxes. Your incoming faxes will come in the form of an email.
- Send faxes. Certain services allow you to send faxes. This may require special software and include a fee.
- Voicemail. Voice messages left on this phone number will be sent as an attachment in an email.
- Wireless features. Have faxes, pages, or email sent to your wireless phone, pager, or PDA.
Why subscribe to Free Fax and Phone numbers?
The advantages of a free fax and phone number are:
- It's free! There's no cost to you to sign up.
- You do not need a fax machine. Eliminate the bulky fax machine by using this service.
- Stay in touch. You do not need to be at your office to receive faxes and messages.
- Security. Faxes that are forwarded to you by email are more secured than those of conventional machines. You can also use this number as a secondary phone number. Set up the number for voicemail and give it to people who may sell it to marketers.
How do I decide which Free Fax and Phone Number services are right for me?
The right services for you depend on:
- Fees. Some providers allocate a fixed amount of time for you to receive faxes or messages. If you exceed that limit, they will charge you. Other charges include upgrading your phone number to a local area code, sending faxes, sending voice messages via email, and retrieving voicemail by telephone.
- Features. Do you want a fax number only, or do you want more advanced features such as voicemail and wireless features?
- Privacy policy. Will the provider keep your name private? Read their policy to make sure they won't sell your name and phone number to marketers.
- Your phone number. If possible, get a phone number in your local area code. Also, make sure that the phone number is a standard 10-digit phone number.
- Storage space available. How many faxes or messages are you allowed to save on the system?
- Remote features. Some services will notify you by pager or ICQ when new messages arrive.
- The trial period. Is the service valid for a limit time?
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