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Re:Scott Adams: Wireless Voice Calls are Obsolete by T_S_ on Wednesday September 29, 2010 @02:27PM (#1740507)
"For important calls, I use a land line that serves as my fax line. If I receive a call on my cellphone, I try to keep it short, or I call back from my fax line."

Why aren't faxes obsolete? Over 10 years since President Clinton e-signed the e-signature law into place. About 150 years since the first e-signature (over telegraph). Seems like an opportunity missed here.

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Re:Scott Adams: Wireless Voice Calls are Obsolete by dangrossman on Wednesday September 29, 2010 @04:15PM (#1740976)
Banks still like them, for some reason. Merchant accounts always ask for chargeback rebuttals by fax.
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Re:Scott Adams: Wireless Voice Calls are Obsolete by pak on Monday October 04, 2010 @01:40AM (#1754715)
Because it still isn't trivial to hook up a machine to a jack and send documents to other people with one button press. (Try setting up a copier that is supposed to email PDF's over the LAN and see what I mean. It's at least 10x more complicated to get working.)
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Re:Scott Adams: Wireless Voice Calls are Obsolete by wazoox on Wednesday September 29, 2010 @03:39PM (#1740815)
They certainly are obsolete. I'm nearly 40 and I managed to send no more than 2 faxes in my whole professional life. I don't seem to having done it once in the past 8 years.
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Re:Scott Adams: Wireless Voice Calls are Obsolete by danpker on Wednesday September 29, 2010 @04:55PM (#1741116)
They're definitely not obsolete, at least outside of technology companies. Many businesses use a fax machine on a daily basis to send documents and order forms, as it's much easier than scanning things and then emailing them.
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Re:Scott Adams: Wireless Voice Calls are Obsolete by sachitgupta on Wednesday September 29, 2010 @04:00PM (#1740906)
Even when I do, I end up using an online service like http://www.hellofax.com/. Works really well!
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Re:Scott Adams: Wireless Voice Calls are Obsolete by joe_the_user on Wednesday September 29, 2010 @06:09PM (#1741328)
Why aren't faxes obsolete?

They are.

The new, advanced use for your old fax line is as a platform for the new, dedicated POTS voice lines that are coming in to obsolete your unreliable legacy mobile phone...

(this is Scott Adams, after all)

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