FAQ: How can I send a fax from the Internet?
Free Fax Services
FREE SERVICES -
United States destinations
FaxZero
FaxZero lets you send up to two free faxes per day to anywhere in the U.S. (including Puerto Rico) and Canada.
There is a limit of 3 pages per fax. An ad will appear on the cover page. Faxes may be text, Microsoft Word
.DOC files, or .PDF files. An optional $1.99 version removes the cover page ad and allows up to 15 pages per fax.
Send a free fax with FaxZero
[Verified 4/10/2008]
FREE SERVICES -
International destinations
Costa Rica
This site lets you send free faxes to Costa Rica. You can send a fax
anywhere in the country and check the delivery status. The web pages are
in Spanish. Click 'Para enviar un Fax presione Aqu’' to send a fax.
Click 'Consultar el estado de un fax enviado' to see the status of sent faxes.
Free registration required.
http://www.nacion.co.cr/netinc/cortesia/fax.html
[Verified 4/14/2006]
Germany & Austria
The site is in German. According to a German translator, the site allows
free fax transmission worldwide. You can also get a free fax number in
Germany or Austria for receipt via email. Faxes include advertising to
cover costs, and subscribers expressly permit advertising to be sent
to their email address for 6 months.
http://www.denotos.com/demo.php3
[Verified 4/14/2006]
Germany, Italy, Austria, France & Switzerland
The site is in German. According to a German translator, it offers free fax
transmission to Germany, Italy, Austria, France and Switzerland. Faxes are
sent from Germany between 18.00 and 02:00. Maximum two faxes per day, maximum
three pages each. No advertising.
http://www.faxen-online.de/
[Verified 4/14/2006]
FaxYourMP
For U.K. citizens only, this service lets you fax your Member of Parliament
for free.
http://www.FaxYourMP.com
[Verified 4/14/2006]
Hong Kong
Outfax.com lets you send free faxes to Hong Kong, up to 10 pages, with support for many graphics and text file formats.
The fax form is available in English, Traditional Chinsese, and Simplified Chinese. Users can use any language
to fill in the cover page form and attach documents in any language.
http://www.outfax.com
[Verified 4/14/2006]
Italy
Provides free fax to email service to Milan (02) and Rome (06) Italy. For other
areas there is a per-page fee. Send a message:
To: faxnumber@fax.messagenet.it
For more information (the Web site is in Italian):
http://www.FreeFax.it
[Verified 4/14/2006]
FREE SERVICES -
Canadian destinations
Winnipeg City (+1-204)
This service allows you to send a fax to Winnipeg City, Canada (+1-204.)
To use, send e-mail
To: fax@umanitoba.ca
Body:
FAXnumber: <local 7-digit fax number to dial>
FAXto: <Receiver's name>
FAXfrom: <sender's name>
FAXcontact: <sender's phone number>
FAXmemobegin
<Optional memo text on the cover page, up to 20 lines>
FAXmemoend
<Whole fax body>
[Verified 4/15/2006]
Montreal (+1-514 & 1-450)
Send a fax anywhere in Montreal, free. Web page is in English and French.
You can check the status of your fax as well.
http://www.vif.com/run/fax/index.shtml
[Verified 4/14/2006]
FaxZero
See the listing for FaxZero, which can send faxes throughout Canada.
FREE SERVICES -
For Receiving Faxes Only
The following free services let you receive faxes, but not send them.
K7.net
K7 offers free incoming voicemail and fax messages delivered to your e-mail box as WAV
or TIF files. All phone numbers are assigned in Seattle, CA, USA (area code 1-206.)
You must receive at least one fax or voicemail message per month, or your account may be deleted.
http://www.k7.net
[Verified 3/27/2008]
FaxDigits
FaxDigits' free fax service provides a phone number for incoming faxes, which are
delivered to your email box as PDF files. (My assigned phone number was in the 515 area code:
Des Moines, Iowa.) The Premium option ($7.95 month) gives you a toll-free
or local phone number in your choice of cities.
Go to FaxDigits
[Verified 3/27/2008]
CallSure
Want a fax number in the U.K? CallSure will provide a U.K. fax number
that you can forward to e-mail (for delivery in PCX, PDF, or DCX formats.)
This service is free. For a fee, you can have voice or fax calls to that
U.K. number forwarded to another number in another country. If you don't use
the number for a certain time period, your account will be terminated.
http://www.callsure07050.co.uk/faxtoemail.html
[Verified 3/27/2008]