While a huge amount of business and professional communication is undertaken via email in this day and age, the need for a fax machine or fax capability on a computer remains vital. Faxes continue to comprise a significant amount of corporate and business communication each day.
With technological advances, it no longer is necessary for a typical business owner to invest in both a fax machine and a computer system. Rather, a business owner or operator can save money by combining both functions within his computer system.
There are a number of decent computer based fax software programs available for sale both in the brick and mortar world and on the World Wide Web. Indeed, a business owner can find such program software for a decent price.
But, a more diligent business owner or operator – and anybody else interested in obtaining a fax capability for their computer, be it business or personal – can find free fax software in abundance on the Internet. (Even some “regular” stores in the “real world” offer free fax software for their customers.
Some providers give away free fax software and then charge a recurring monthly fee for a personalized fax number. In the end, this is a pretty good trade-off in that the consumer is able to have unlimited fax access, able to obtain free fax software and ends up with a dedicated fax line.
We did some research on Internet entities that provide free fax software to determine what the recurring charges for a dedicated phone line or personal phone number might be at this time. We did find that the price tag attached to the recurring charge for a personal phone line attached to the free fax software varied greatly.
Indeed, we found charges as high as $25.00 per month and as low as $2.00 per month. We tend to think that the mid-range is about where most consumers are likely to fall as far as recurring charges are concerned arising out of personal phone number connected to free fax software.