By Linda Dailey Paulson. Though it is not readily apparent whether the market will embrace the concept, several companies introduced software applications designed to reduce the cost of faxing documents internationally in connection with Internet use. The company's fax services will soon be transferred to this network. That will then allow travelers to conveniently send faxes, theoretically, by dialing in to a local telephone number rather than incur expensive long distance telephone bills. Everyone has a fax machine they are going to use sometime.
People use e-mail, but they still want to fax.
Neither corporate literature nor Feeley could give specifics about pricing, though the estimate is that this technology could give consumers a 40 percent discount compared to their current fax charges. Contrast this to another idea for basically the same service. Service is limited based on the placement of the servers. Fax2Net, though seemingly waiting on a network to be put into wider placement, estimates their technology will save consumers about 75 percent in long distance charges. FaxSav is yet another of these companies, with a Comdex presence.