We still have a landline for our fax machine for business. No VOIP required here yet.
Why were you not able to keep your phone # @walkinghome?
@jym626 Our old carrier wouldn’t release the number. I think they get just so many of our area code and exchange. We were able to pick our new number though from a dozen choices and the one we chose is very similar to my childhood phone number! It bothered me less than I thought it would to change it. Had we been allowed to keep the old number there would have been a $40 charge.
If they dont let us port the #, we are ditching the landlines. I thought they had to let you port the #s now.
@psychmomma , we ditched the landline for the fax many years ago and pay about $12/mo to metrofax dot com for a fax number. Faxes can be emailed or uploaded to their site and you can receive them the same way. I like it very much
@somemom, do you use a scanner to load the pages, then send via online fax number? H sends large faxes- 25+ pages.
Yes, I scan everything to PDF, and many times when I have documents 20-50 pages which are locked an not editable from companies, I fax them to myself so I can delete the extraneous pages in the bundle.
Wow. That would tie up the landline for quite a while, especially if there’s any transmission problems.
Even back in the early 00s’ even the most luddite biglaw partners at the firm I worked at would opt for scanning that many pages into a PDF and emailing it as opposed to faxing it.
Sending that many pages over fax is not only a huge waste of time, it also ties up faxlines and the fax minding staffer’s time better spent on other matters. Especially considering biglaw firms even back then had automatic scanners which could scan 25 or even a couple of hundred pages in far less time than it would take for a 25 or even 15 page fax to go through*.
- In an early startup gig, I was tasked with faxing a 30 page document because the receiving office wasn't fully on board with using email with attachments. That took a long while and some pages ended up having to be retransmitted because of some landline/fax machine issues on their end.
All I can say is that there are plenty of law firms that still fax. We receive more than we send. Tax returns, medical records, etc., much of it containing confidential information. My insurance office also uses fax for confidential documents. Very large files are overnighted.
We still have an old fashioned landline, per H, even though we have FIOS. I have a bundle. I switch between FIOS and Optimum every year or two to improve my deal, but I am looking at ditching the landline. I pay over $400/month for the FIOS and 7 Verizon cell phones and it is driving me crazy. That’s with a discount on the cell phone part through oldest boy’s employment with the Feds.
Back when people still paid for minutes on the cell phone, I would confiscate H’s phone as soon as he walked in the door and insist that he use the landline. That was after he used ALL 300 of our minutes in 4 days- AT HOME! We still have the landline for his business.
“All I can say is that there are plenty of law firms that still fax.”
There are clients who insist on using fax for all communications…
Haven’t had a landline since 2010.