I asked him and he said the service he used was bought out by myfax.com. He said he was grandfathered in at a lower price. But, feel free to check out their current service. Peter Eric Cope wrote: > What fax service does he use? I've searched for a fax service like > that, but have never found one. > Thanks, > Eric > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:10 AM, AZ Pete > wrote: > > I have Cox for Internet, Phone and Cable. > > Several months ago I was getting irritated with the high cost of > the land line phone portion of my bill. What I did was to get a > Google voice number, which provided me with free long distance and > voice mail (as well a many other excellent features - all for > free). I then dropped all the "bells & whistles" and long distance > service from my land line and simply have a basic line w/Caller > ID. The cost for this land line is $11.75 line fee + $5.95 for > caller ID. The rest is various taxes. Total land line = $28 /month. > > If someone calls my land line directly (instead of my Google #), I > have an answering machine to handle that. > If you really want to get lean, drop your land line altogether and > have your Google voice number simply route to your calls to your > cell phone. > > As far as fax service, there is absolutely no need to have a > dedicated fax line and machine these days. There are so many > online services available for so cheap that it doesn't pay to > "host" it yourself. My brother receives hundreds of faxes each > month and he pays $2-3 per month flat rate. To send a fax, he > simply sends an email to the hosting service and they fax it > appropriately (although the need for sending faxes is getting > exceedingly rare). > > Hope this helps. > Peter > > > > joe@actionline.com wrote: > > Are there any alternatives to Qwest for land-line telephone > and DSL service? > > Qwest has just raised their rates and I think some of the > charges are > unreasonable, particularly for voice mail and the portion of > the DSL > service that goes to M$ (which is the most irritating since I > don't use M$ > for anything). > > For the land-line phone service, I pay $37.99/month which > includes a > second land-line and voice-mail for one line. But then they > charge $6.20 > for each of the two lines for "Federal Access Charge" > (probably can't do > anything about that). But for voice mail on the second line, > they charge > an additional $7.95/month plus $3.95 for an extension mailbox. > That part > seems excessive to me. Surely there must be some other good > alternatives. > > The broadband charges show as $38.00 for Qwest Connect Platinum > plus $16.99 for Qwest Connect PLTNM w MSFT, less "bundle savings" > of $5.00/month and a promotional discount of $15.00/month. > So $54.99 - $20.00 = $34.99/month. > > Any suggestions? > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss