Moreover, sending documents via e-mail can be slow when you are downloading via a modem. Since most people don't have permanent connections, and many would only be able to afford limited access accounts, checking e-mail a couple times a day is probably about all they could afford. Sending documents similarly requires dialing up and uploading the file. Compare this with immediacy of sending a quick fax. Of course, if a computer is available, it can send and receive faxes via its modem.
Voice modems can even replace the answering machine and save a phone line in the process.
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