Computer: Network: Wireless
SMS to FAX gateway   (+4, -2)  [vote for, against]
type an SMS msg into your phone, out it comes on someone's fax

ive only heard of SMS msgs being exchanged between phones. phoneless folks who want to send a msg to a phone can use AT&T's web page. but what about phoneful folks who want to send an SMS to a the phoneless but faxful?

there is a network of free fax servers out there.[STOP] it would be nifty to have short ascii messages roll out of a friend's fax machine.[STOP] almost like a telex! [STOP]

wouldnt it?[PAUSE]
-- gnormal, Aug 25 2001

Doesn't the presence of a fax indicate the presence of a phone?

This reminds me of a Dilbert cartoon where D is vying for technological superiority over a co-worker. One of the panels has a fax coming out of his belt.
-- phoenix, Aug 25 2001


Most SMS providers supply e-mail gateways these days. (In the US, many people "send email from my cell phone" without realizing they're using SMS and a gateway.)

There are lots of E-mail to FAX gateways, so there's your bakey. Better yet, just send them an e-mail; FAX machines are dumb.

And yeah, who's got a FAX machine but no phone?
-- egnor, Aug 04 2002


I think this is great. My dad has a mobile phone but it's rarely on and he don't know how to SMS. (he has no computer/email) A fax he can handle! It would be nice to be able to send him 'hellos' now and then.
-- argdumtrist, Aug 24 2007


FAX? You mean those clunky picturephone thingies they used to have in offices during the medieval era?
-- kinemojo, Aug 24 2007


Googled for this, because I really need it, and one of the top results is this hbidea here on HB!

Responding to the negative annos:

1. In my country, all government, banks, lawyers, large goods suppliers - all use fax, and for various interactions will not accept anything besides a fax.

2. Most people have a cell phone with no fast way to send an email 2 fax.

So: SMS2Fax will be great for the combined situation.
-- pashute, Jun 16 2010


//1. In my country, all government, banks, lawyers, large goods suppliers - all use fax, and for various interactions will not accept anything besides a fax.//

I don't know what country you're from, but my country is considered fairly advanced and still people occasionally ask me to fax things to them. Lawyers are slooooowly catching on to scan-and-email, but my last accountant still has a fax and no email address! I find it incredible that people like that can stay in business at all.
-- wagster, Jun 16 2010


There is some legal thing about a fax, my bank (for one particularly obscure account) will accept a printed and signed instruction or a faxed instruction, but not scanned and emailed and not also faxed via a computer. They must have analogue lawyers!
-- pocmloc, Jun 16 2010



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