Subscription to Douglas Telecom’s
fax services is just $5.00 per number per month. Additional
fax receiving channels can be added to your service for $5.00
per month per fax channel. Usage fees will apply for faxes
sent to long distance or international destinations. Usage fees
will apply to both incoming and outgoing faxes. Please review
our applicable toll free number long distance
rates for your incoming and outgoing faxes.
How many pages can be transmitted per
minute? It depends. If you send out a one single page fax,
that could vary anywhere from 20 seconds to two minutes; in
some cases it could take as long as 3-4 minutes, depending on
a number of factors. The quality and composition of a fax
always have a bearing on the length of the transmission. It
also depends on the fax machine sending the fax. On our tests
on over 1000 faxes, most of the time it will take under one
minute per page – frequently only 30-40 seconds per page,
assuming that most faxes sent have multiple pages. If you
always send single page faxes, the average per page
transmission time could be up to 50% higher. Please see the
table below for a comparison of average fax transmission
times.
How Long Does It
Take to Transmit a Fax?
|
|
Slow Mode |
Normal Mode |
Fine Quality |
Error
Correction Overhead |
|
good line |
poor line |
|
Typical one page handwritten
fax |
60 seconds per page |
46 seconds per page |
120 seconds per page |
66 seconds per page |
120 seconds per page |
|
Typical multi-page handwritten
fax |
53 seconds per page |
41 seconds per page |
106 seconds per page |
58 seconds per page |
106 seconds per page |
|
Typical two page fax with typed
cover page and typed second page |
50 seconds per page |
39 seconds per page |
100 seconds per page |
55 seconds per page |
100 seconds per page |
|
Typical typed 10 page document
with no graphics |
50 seconds per page |
39 seconds per page |
100 seconds per page |
55 seconds per page |
100 seconds per page |
|
Typical typed 10 page document
with graphics |
100
seconds per page |
77 seconds per page |
200
seconds per page |
110
seconds per page |
200
seconds per page |
A common question posed to us
about our fax service is this: If I’m receiving a long fax,
will it tie up my fax number so that I cannot receive other
faxes? The answer is not necessarily. If you have only one fax
number, and no additional fax receiving channels, a long fax
will tie up your fax machine, however, if you have signed up
for additional fax receiving channels, you will be able to
receive as many simultaneous faxes as you have channels
associated with your fax number on your account.
