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, .DOCX, .PDF, or Excel 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
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FREE SERVICES -
International destinations
WriteToThem
For U.K. citizens only, this charity-run service (formerly FaxYourMP) lets you contact your Member of Parliament or other political representative
for free.
http://www.WriteToThem.com
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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. Users can send one free page without registering.
The fax form is available in English, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese, but supports more than 30 languages. Users can use any language
to fill in the cover page form and attach documents in Word, Excel, GIF, PDF, JPEG, TIFF and other formats.
http://www.outfax.com
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Italy and England
MessageNet provides free fax to email service to Milan (02) and Rome (06) Italy and dozens more Italian cities as well as London, England (44-207). Service is receive-only. To send, and for other
areas, there is a per-page fee. A limit on the number of faxes received (three per month) starts after three months. Send a message:
To: faxnumber@fax.messagenet.it
For more information:
http://www.FreeFax.it
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Other Countries
FaxZero. It's not free but cheap for one-time or occasional faxing: FaxZero has low rates for international faxing from the U.S. and Canada to 117 other nations. Prices start at around $3.63 for up to 15 pages (for countries such as the UK and China). Faxing to Mexico is $5.42. (Free faxing is available for U.S. and Canada destinations.)
Send a free International fax with FaxZero
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FREE SERVICES -
Canadian destinations
Winnipeg City (+1-204)
This service through the University of Manitoba allows you to send a fax to Winnipeg City, Canada (+1-204.) You can attach a plain text (.txt) file.
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 5 lines>
FAXmemoend
<Whole fax body>
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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
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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, WA, USA (area code 1-206.)
You must receive at least one fax or voicemail message per month, or your account may be deleted. If you choose "WA State Only Plan," get a larger, 100-message storage limit and 90 days' of no usage time.
http://www.k7.net
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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 PDF format.)
This service is free to the recipient, but costs the caller 10p per minute. (Number can only be dialed from the U.K.) 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 at least once during any two-month period, your account will be terminated.
Go to CallSure
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FaxNumberUK
FaxNumberUK offers free fax numbers in UK number range 084. The company offers a range of fax to email service; the free one is for receiving faxes only, not sending them. No special software is required, and there are no signup fees for the free 084 Fax2Email service. The number can only be dialed from the UK.
http://www.Fax-number.co.uk
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