fax over cell phone

[skip555]

I have a customer in area damged by hurricane charley and we are trying to get a temp office established for the rebuild

we need to add a fax line and i was thinking of trying one of the analog adapters for cell phones

anyone have experiance with them for fax use .

 

[paul144]

I would be really concerned about signal quality. Other than that, I have never tried faxing over cell before.

 

[skip555]

well it turns out the product was discontinued

if anyone knows of any other devices I would apprectiate suggestions

right now customer has neither power nor phone

he has generator power and cell service is available.

 

[NX01]

For the time being maybe efax may be a good route. He can fax from his computer and have teh LEC forward his fax number to the efax number.

http://www.efax.com

In the future everything will work...

 

[skip555]

I suggested efax but with no phone line he has no net access.

I guess we could look into cell modem and laptop

 

[NX01]

If he uses his cell as a modem he can dial an isp. I have used my Nextel for this. It is really slooooow, but worked. How bout a Blackberry? Tmobile and ATT have the ability to open attachments....

In the future everything will work...

 

[jerryreeve]

Hello direct.com has docking stations for cellular phones that convert the cell phone to an RJ-11 jack that can be plugged into a second line on a two line telephone. you could easily take this and plug it into a fax line jack and be good to go. I can't speak for the quality though.

Hello direct Part Numbers were 2928D, 2929D depending on your cell phone type.

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JerryReeve
Communications Systems Int'l
com-sys.com

 

[skip555]

Hello direct.com has docking stations for cellular phones that convert the cell phone to an RJ-11 jack that can be plugged into a second line on a two line telephone. you could easily take this and plug it into a fax line jack and be good to go. I can't speak for the quality though.

mike sandman had the same item on his website. Its what I had in mind when the customer called
I called Sandman yesterday and they told me it was manufacurere disontuined and they had tried it on fax's and that it didnt work for data
I just called hello direct and got the same story no longer availible


I bought one a few years ago with the Idea re selling them I think its a great concept, customer walks in his office sets his cell phone in a cradle and now his calls go to a line on the key sytem . his secratary can answer his cell calls park them page him in the plant ...


I could never get any customers interested.

Its been a couple of years and I no longer have the cell phone it works with (it was cell phone specfic diffrent models for diffrent phones) so I cant try it for this application (also I cant seem to put my hands on it at the moment )

truth is I only used mine for a short while then the novelty wore off.

still open to suggestions ...

 

[dhnl]

install a microvave wireless bridge to somewhere that has service. Install VOIP gateways.

 

[SF0751]

If cell coverage is available, I would try an AirCard - a PCMCIA card for laptops; available from most cell phone companies (Sprint, Cingular, T-Mobile, etc.). This will give you dial-up capability via the cell network, instead of analog. Then utilize efax, as NX01 suggested.

Susan
"People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

 

[jerryreeve]

sorry for wrong info. I didn't expect that item to disappear.

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JerryReeve
Communications Systems Int'l
com-sys.com