I work from home and will be moving to a different area code within the next month. I use my cell phone for all phone calls, which my company pays for. My problem is my fax. I receive a ton of faxes every day and don't want to change my fax #. I checked with Vonage and it appears as if they would service my fax #. I guess I'm not sure how Vonage works. I must have high speed internet to function. Right now I have DSL through my local phone company. Would I need to establish phone service at my new home with DSL and then get Vonage? Would I be paying for monthly phone service and DSL to the phone company and then Vonage on top of that?
Any help would be appreciated !

Lowtax4eva

Yes, Vonage will charge you a monthly fee apart from your internet provider, it uses its own router to convert voice into data and send it over the net to the other phone/fax.

Wikipedia can explain more about it
Vonage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

labman

I have had Vonage as my phone service for about 3 years. What you need is any broad band service, a router if you are going to share the connection with another device, and a telephone adapter. There are combination router telephone adapters. You may or may not have to use Vonage equipment now. I have cable internet, a router which I bought, and a telephone adapter Vonage furnished. Retaining your old phone number depends on your old phone company. Under current regulations, all the real phone companies must allow you to keep it. Under the regulations at the time, my former phony company didn't have to.

I think most phone companies bundle a local line into their DSL. I know for a while, my son had DSL for internet, but only used his cell phone. He never bothered using the land line line provided.

I have seen some banner ads for E fax, not sure if here or maybe on Yahoo. Don't know if it is something you could use or not.

I pay $45 for cable and $30 for phone service. I now have better service and free calls to the US, Canada, and western Europe. I used to pay 10 cents a minute to call the far side of my county.

ScottGem

Vonage is under injunction right now to not take on new subscribers. This is because of a patent infringement suit with Verizon.

One thing I would check is to see if you can transfer your fax number to efax.com. Also, if where you are moving has cable TV service that does VoIP you may ba able to transfer your fax number to them.

KMC6296

Great! Thanks everyone for the replies. Anothe question ... does efax transmit to my computer? That would be awesome. And, is there a way to retrieve the faxes from a different location? Using something like PC Anywhere?

ScottGem

Efax sends you an e-mail to let you know that a fax has come in. Since the faxes are stored on Efax until you retrieve them, you can retrieve your faxes from anywhere you have WEB access.