On 6/12/2004 1:25 PM, Ryan Ginstrom wrote:

> Murgi wrote:
> 
>>Actually there is commercial service in Tokyo, but I don't know
>>whether on can get the service for one month only (3500 Yen/month
>>approx.).
>>You send a fax to a given phone number in Tokyo, and the fax is
>>converted to a TIFF file and automatically sent to whereever the
>>receiver is.
> 
> I use that service (all@inbox). I don't see why you couldn't get just a
> month. You would just sign up, then cancel after a month.
> 
> I've been happy with it myself. Another good feature of the service is that
> it includes voicemail, sent to you as audio files.

I tried to sign up with them some time back (more than a year ago), but 
they were no longer accepting new accounts. It seems that they are 
having some sort of problem getting new telephone numbers assigned by 
NTT. I've checked their page periodically since then, but the situation 
has not improved.

Instead I ended up going with efax.com, which is a US company but can 
give you a local fax number in Japan. I would like to recommend them 
(and their service does do pretty much what I need), but I have started 
to have billing problems with them recently (erroneous charges that they 
claim not to know about and that I then have to have canceled by talking 
to my credit card issuer), so I can't really recommend them to Sigi.

I'd be curious to know if there are any other alternatives out there 
that people are happy with.

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Scott Reynolds                                      sar@gol.com