taraf
join:2011-05-07
Stittsville, ON | reply to bnceo
Re: What a Missed Opportunity said by bnceo:How hard is it to give all Nextel users a pick of their smartphone on Sprint. Let them pick anything and get the customer. Sprint is simply saying they don't want any former Nextel customer, regardless on their pay record. Which is truly confusing.
The point of adding the $10/mo fee is to try to encourage users to switch to something newer. They've been trying to convince the iDen customers to move over to newer offerings since they acquired Nextel, but there will always be people who think that their existing device is good enough, and who will refuse to upgrade until you force them to.
Heck, I still know people who have a pager, and prefer fax machines over e-mail. I would lay odds that the majority of customers who were originally on iDen have upgraded by now already. |
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1 edit | Contrary to popular belief, neither the fax nor pager are dead. Doctors still have pagers as they can be reached in areas cell phones don't work. Also, some other professionals have pagers, too.
The fax machine is still heavily utilized by the medical industry and corporate world. It's far more secure than email and is a direct person to person contact when sending a document. An email can be "snooped upon" if someone loses their password, etc. Thus, the fax will never be dead.
How many of the general populous uses a face or page? Not many. People still have fax machines (much more than pages), for the above reason though. |
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| Until you can come up with a Fax over IP system that's as easy as laying down a stack of paper, hitting 10 numbers, the start button, and walk away Faxing not going anywhere. I've yet to install a VoIP circuit where I didn't have to configure t38 so their faxing will work.
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| Well..... many printers in a business environment can scan to email. I would say that is a pretty good replacement for the fax system and it pretty much eliminates the use of additional paper. |
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Sprint was NEVER trying to move customers from Nextel to the CDMA side. They were ALLOWING customers to move free between the two. This is the result of a half-ass merger that was NEVER done correctly. Never let customers move to a network that you want to shut down.
I can tell you several major customers of Sprint's that have never moved yet. Several of them are government contracts and others are utility companies- who have well over 15,000 lines. |
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Unless you have sensitive information in the documents. Once they are in your email, they are much less secure. |
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 hitachi369Embrace Your RightsPremium
join:2001-10-03
Grand Rapids, MI
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Even then, fax is more secure. Provided you are following safe data handling internally, you dont have to worry about a compromise or a 3rd party snooping (unless they are tapping your phone line.) With email it is going all over the place and anyone in between could be poking around your message. |
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You can use many encryption methods with email and the contents of them.
Sending a fax to another fax machine that is typically setup in a general office location to be shared by many not only opens your fax up to a much bigger potential audience but it also leaves a paper trail that then has to be properly disposed of. And you consider that to be more secure? |
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sk1939Premium
join:2010-10-23
Washington, DC
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| said by Skippy25:You can use many encryption methods with email and the contents of them.
Sending a fax to another fax machine that is typically setup in a general office location to be shared by many not only opens your fax up to a much bigger potential audience but it also leaves a paper trail that then has to be properly disposed of. And you consider that to be more secure?
Perhaps, but it's much easier for an email to be intercepted, not to mention the fact that it happens to reside on servers that service thousands of users.
Additionally, encrypting email is not something most email clients do natively, especially from a copy machine, and require significant extra steps. These steps aren't likely to be handled well by administrative assistants.
There is a reason the government and corporate industry still use fax machines. |
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 RARPSL
join:1999-12-08
Suffern, NY | reply to hamburglar_
said by hamburglar_:Unless you have sensitive information in the documents. Once they are in your email, they are much less secure.
There is no reason why you can not encrypt the eFax file before mailing it as an attachment. The major problem with emailing a Fax file as opposed to doing a direct Fax-Machine to Fax-Machine connection is that you have no way to know that the message arrived. This is the same "problem" as sending ANY email message - you know it was sent but have no way of knowing if/when it arrived. |
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fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
join:2005-05-20
kudos:3 | reply to Skippy25
said by Skippy25:Well..... many printers in a business environment can scan to email. I would say that is a pretty good replacement for the fax system and it pretty much eliminates the use of additional paper.
You took the words out of my mouth. The technology is EASILY implimented yet people still stand by the fax.. sorry, but the fax IS dead. I've used many brother MFC machines that work just as a fax.. but instead of a phone number you enter an email address.. pretty simple. Saves on toner, paper, and any other dial tone expenses. |
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fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
join:2005-05-20
kudos:3 | reply to sk1939
Nothing can "guarantee" that the person on the other end of the fax is the intended recipient either.. There is always inherit risk. Not to mention, many of these government and corps that you speak of still use a fax to email gateway anyway. Kinda blows that theory out. |
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I work for a financial company and I can assure you if faxing was safer than email, at any level, then that would be our required method of communication. Many clients flat out require encrypted email and files as the only method of communications. So either our multi-billion dollar worldwide firmalong with a bunch of other billion dollar companies are setup by a bunch of morons and I am wrong or it is the other way around. |
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| Lets just be clear...simply working for a financial company doesn't make you more secure... I have on numerous accounts had to stop multiple "financial institutions" from sending my data via email. People are extremely lazy and poorly trained so unless the institution has put in place a policy and method to scan emails looking for secure data and stop it...its still happening.
People are lazy and ignorant.. point blank.. |
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 AVDRespice, Adspice, ProspicePremium
join:2003-02-06
Onion, NJ
kudos:1 | reply to taraf
said by taraf:but there will always be people who think that their existing device is good enough, and who will refuse to upgrade until you force them to.
some customers have hundreds if not thousands of devices.
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