AT&T Wireless Home Phone

[k0ua]

There are so many options out there for faxing over a VOIP provider, Vonage, Magic Jack to name a few. All these things are is VOIP to Analog Gateways. lots and lots of options if you really need to fax.

Even the former "phone company" I worked for has an internet based fax service. Several tiers of it actually according to your needs. The concept it pretty simple. One of several ways to "fax" the document is to print it to the fax service and it goes across the internet and the remote fax server dials the number of the physical analog fax machine on the other end and delivers the fax. Or you email it to the fax server and it does the same. And you put an "bogus" fax number on your business cards and letter head, but it terminates into the remote fax server, who when it receives a fax it bundles it up and emails it to your email box. Each person in your organization can have their own number and therefore the fax is privately delivered into your email box. No waiting around lying on the fax machine for anyone in the office or who walks by to see it.

No local phone number bill for the fax line, and no fax machine, and no supplies to purchase. The customers are never the wiser that you don't even have a fax machine. Ain't technology grand!

 

[txdon]

Are there any services that just charge by the fax instead of by the month?

I went by out local AT&T stop they do not carry it. Does a regular phone plug into it or does it come with a phone. All I got from AT&T is a pic of a black box.

Edit: found some info:
https://www.att.com/support_static_files/manuals/ATT_Wireless_Home_Phone_WF721.pdf

 

[k0ua]

Are there any services that just charge by the fax instead of by the month?

I went by out local AT&T stop they do not carry it. Does a regular phone plug into it or does it come with a phone. All I got from AT&T is a pic of a black box.

Edit: found some info:
https://www.att.com/support_static_files/manuals/ATT_Wireless_Home_Phone_WF721.pdf

FaxZero is free for basic service (Ad's on website) or $1.99 per fax. Efax is $16.99 per month for 150 incoming and 150 outgoing per month.


I can only speak to the Verizon version of the home phone device, but it does not include any phone. You provide that yourself. It is a small black box with wall wart you plug into a power outlet and it has a short antenna on the box. There is a 4 hour battery backup in the box. There are some lights on the front, for power on indication and signal strength. Not much to it. We used a standard old 2500 series analog touchtone phone as that interface was familiar, but it could also easily be the input of a cordless phone system with multiple handsets. It has enough ring power to easily ring a 2500 with a mechanical bell. I would assume the AT&T unit is the same.

 

[k0ua]

$16.95 per month seems cheap to me, considering you can have a toll free number associated with that service and not having to have a local phone line, or buy a machine or buy supplies for it. Plus you can have an app for your smart phone to see and even sign faxes from the smartphone as well as the email seems like an extra bonus to me. No, I am not a internet fax salesperson. Though I once thought I might be....:laughing:

 

[k0ua]

$16.95 per month seems cheap to me, considering you can have a toll free number associated with that service and not having to have a local phone line, or buy a machine or buy supplies for it. Plus you can have an app for your smart phone to see and even sign faxes from the smartphone as well as the email seems like an extra bonus to me. No, I am not a internet fax salesperson. Though I once thought I might be....:laughing:

Here is the product I used to sell. I have no connection to them now.

Windstream Domain Services | Fax to Email

 

[civilian]

Are there any services that just charge by the fax instead of by the month?

I went by out local AT&T stop they do not carry it. Does a regular phone plug into it or does it come with a phone. All I got from AT&T is a pic of a black box.

Edit: found some info:
https://www.att.com/support_static_files/manuals/ATT_Wireless_Home_Phone_WF721.pdf

Thanks for the link to the user manual. We bought some property and will build on it. We have Verizon cells now, but we receive no calls at the property. Some one with AT&T received a call at the property. So we are thinking of using the AT&T internet home phone unit for internet and as a "land line". We have had the land line number too long to give it up yet. Especially if the cell signals are not good enough. My phone was just replaced before buying the property, so I may be stuck with Verizon for a while. Unless I can somehow get out of the contract. Jon

 

[kf4uda]

I thought I would give an update to this thread. My Mom has had the wireless home phone service for well over a year now. There was a few occasions that the service dropped out. I would cycle power to the base unit and it would work for sometimes a week or maybe a few days. I called AT&T and tech support wanted me to replace the sim card. I went to the AT&T store and got a new one and called in to activate it. We have not had an issue with it since that I know of. We usually had more outages than that in 6 months with the old wired service. We are happy with the service. My Mom has good clear service and a much lower price. Her total bill is $23.24 per month with unlimited nationwide calling.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I cant find that online.. At&t site says they discontinued wireless local service in 2017.

 

[Motorboatin]

Does your mother have internet service? We hardly use our home phone but keep it around since we have had the number for so long. I switched to magic Jack a few years ago. I think it is $50 year and it sounds like a regular land line

 

[txdon]

I cant find that online.. At&t site says they discontinued wireless local service in 2017.

Buckeye, my Aunt just got it 2 weeks ago in central Texas and she likes it a lot and wants my Mom to get it. She really like that she uses her landline caller id and answering machine and no long distance charges. Oh, it's also $20 less than her land-line was per month. She said the installation charge was about $100. She kept her same landline number also.