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Re:Stackit: Cloud and Colocation by exar0815 on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @08:28AM (#30854195)
Strange, I never had to send a single FAX in my life in germany. Especially not for any cloud offerings located in EU/germany. I would LOVE to see proof for that.
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Re:Stackit: Cloud and Colocation by belter on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @08:44AM (#30854358)
German Newspaper (2018):

"...Two-thirds of German companies regularly use faxes, whereas only half of them use video conferencing technologies, and just one-third use messaging services or online collaboration tools..."

https://www.handelsblatt.com/english/companies/digitization-...

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Re:Stackit: Cloud and Colocation by wongarsu on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @09:11AM (#30854713)
86% of German companies employ 10 or fewer people [1]. I'm not why we would expect them to use online collaboration tools or video conferencing pre-pandemic?

Fax still being common is true though, it's mostly used as a quicker alternative to mail with established legal standing and more convenient than rolling out electronic signature schemes. You can still live and work without a fax in Germany, you will just be sending more letters. I've never sent a fax or letter to a German cloud provider though (despite using several of them)

1: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/1929/umfrage/...

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Re:Stackit: Cloud and Colocation by progre on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @08:48AM (#30854410)
Not proof. The question was about cloud companies.
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Re:Stackit: Cloud and Colocation by belter on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @09:03AM (#30854606)
The second part of the comment yes. The first was about how pervasive the use of fax was within German business. But in Japan it's worst:

"Japan’s reliance on fax machines lambasted by coronavirus doctor": https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/coronavirus-ja...

"Japan Can't Get Rid of the Fax Machine With Offices Demanding It Stays": https://www.insider.com/japan-cant-get-rid-the-fax-machine-o...

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Re:Stackit: Cloud and Colocation by sorokod on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @09:17AM (#30854789)
When switching cell phone number away from Vodafone de I was required to send a fax. A data point rather than proof.
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Re:Stackit: Cloud and Colocation by vdfs on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @08:40AM (#30854317)
Some even use Telegram
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