A year and a half in Internet time, though, can be an eternity.
Analysts also point to changing habits in the workplace.
The only things we can't e-mail still are legal documents, but once we figure out digital signatures, this will go away as well. E-mail is the ultimate killer of fax, Mine says. While it is virtually impossible to measure fax traffic, Probe's estimates of individual carrier traffic indicate that fax now accounts for less than 10 percent of the voice traffic, down from 50 percent just 18 months ago. This huge drop has to do with the fact that businesses are sending e-mail, not faxes. UUnet is still operating a worthwhile business out of the service, he says.