40,000 faxes to send out

Posts: 3 · New Forum Member Joined: Oct 26, 2005 Posts: 3

I am a Vonage customer and have no problems sending faxes via the voice line. The company I work for is looking to send out 40,000 faxes to businesses we have contracts with already.

My question is can I send unlimited faxes and not be charged for them as long as its on my unlimited calling voice line right? Even if I use *99 for each fax? I talked to customer service today and they said I can send out as many faxes as I want just as long as I am signed up for the business plan.

Has anyone ever tried to send this many faxes out via there Vonage account?

Thanks in advance Very Happy

Posts: 605 · Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 8:13 pm Post subject:

So you are the guy who sends those spam faxes that get tossed in the trash without reading them Eek

Posts: 3 · New Forum Member Joined: Oct 26, 2005 Posts: 3

No, we are faxing clients we have contracts with, we run a discount travel book that comes out once a year and we need to fax all the hotels that are listed in the book. Unless you own a hotel and are listed in out travel book you will not receive a fax from us.

Posts: 1424 · Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 7:39 am Post subject:

40000 1 page faxes sent sequentially via a standard phone line might take as little as 2 weeks operating continuously.* Assuming no errors or busy signals.

I would expect it to take at least a month on a Vonage line if not longer since ECM is turned off and baud rate is reduced.

There are companies that will do this for you for a fee. They have multiple lines and computer systems set up to send out the faxes and handle retiries and report numbers that don't work.

*A fast Fax machine can send a page in 3 secs. Dialing and ringing can account for 20 seconds. Allow 7 seconds for negotiation and we are working with an approximate per page time of 30 seconds.

40,000 faxes at 2 faxes per minute =
20,000 minutes =
333 hours =
14 days

Posts: 3 · New Forum Member Joined: Oct 26, 2005 Posts: 3

scerruti wrote:

40000 1 page faxes sent sequentially via a standard phone line might take as little as 2 weeks operating continuously.* Assuming no errors or busy signals.

I would expect it to take at least a month on a Vonage line if not longer since ECM is turned off and baud rate is reduced.

There are companies that will do this for you for a fee. They have multiple lines and computer systems set up to send out the faxes and handle retiries and report numbers that don't work.

*A fast Fax machine can send a page in 3 secs. Dialing and ringing can account for 20 seconds. Allow 7 seconds for negotiation and we are working with an approximate per page time of 30 seconds.

40,000 faxes at 2 faxes per minute =
20,000 minutes =
333 hours =
14 days

We will use 5 of our Vonage phone numbers, we have 1.5 meg of upload so we should have plent of bandwidth. But using 5 lines faxing out at the same time we should be able to send all the faxes out in around or under a week.

Posts: 13 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Oct 10, 2005 Posts: 13

Try it and if it doesn't work - you can always use a fax broadcasting company - they are pretty cheap these days and if its just one yearly mailout, you would probably save in wages (on people checking the fax machines etc) what you would spend on it and free up your fax lines.