Net faxing could be a big step in reducing fax costs and increasing the productivity of businesses. The cost will be dramatically cheaper because services will operate entirely over the Internet backbone bypassing conventional telephone company lines. A company's voice network costs can be dramatically reduced if fax operations are moved to the data network. Typical long distance business rates within the U.S. are 15 cents per minute, while fax service bureaus typically charge 65 cents per page. Further discounts can be incurred with volume use of Internet faxing.
Services also support broadcast faxing capabilities.
Once you understand the basics of net faxing technology, it is easy to see how it can be expanded to accommodate innovative scenarios. Software will enable a business to combine their desktop, e-mail and standalone fax traffic through one common Internet connection. Unlike traditional faxing, net Faxing can track the status of a fax, provide delivery notification, and track usage by department. This allows network managers the ability to manage communications budgets more effectively from online reports and analysis of fax usage across the enterprise and at the departmental level. You can view your fax listing via the Internet to see how many fax messages are waiting for you, how many pages are in each fax, and what time each message was received.