Please note Open Query no longer maintains a fax number.
It has always been virtual (that is, any fax received would just arrive here as a PDF attachment) and it’s sometimes been useful for contracts and the like. However, companies have got used to scanning and emailing, and we haven’t had a need for our fax number in quite a while. Since the service was up for renewal, we decided to cancel.
Of course, more and more companies no longer have physical phone lines either, instead only using VoIP. While it’s technically possible to do a fax transmission over VoIP (it even has a special mode for that), that really gets quite silly when you think about the protocol stack involved!
Did you know that the Japanese invented the consumer fax (a step up from the facsimile machines used by the press to transmit photos) to assist them in transmitting documents in their scripts (before electronic transmissions were mainstream). It makes sense in that context. But it “got out” to the rest of the world. Sigh. We don’t think anybody will miss moving on from this technology.