Learned something new this week, the voicemail on my Verizon Wireless mobile phone account supports storing faxes. To access the fax you call into the voicemail service and provide a number to send the fax to. After digging around the Verizon site the only reference to this that I could find was under Enhanced Voice Mail. Looks like the basic voicemail service doesn’t have this feature.
This is nice if you need to get a fax while you are on the go, but I’d really like to see is GrandCentral supporting fax reception. Then I could view faxes (PDF?) just by logging into my account, and printing it out only if I really need a hard copy.
February 27th, 2007 at 6:57 pm Raghav Gupta
Thanks for posting this! I had asked someone to send over an important fax, and that person mixed up my verizon cellphone and fax numbers, and somehow managed to send it to my cellphone, while I kept waiting for it on my efax number. Much later when I checked my voicemail, I found “1 Fax message waiting. To print it, press 1″. I had no idea where it will get “printed”, hopefully not in Verizon’s operations center :). I did not want to lose it, so I hung up. I looked up VZ’s website, didn’t find anything, and finally came upon your post. I was then able to have it faxed back from my voicemail to my efax number. Cool.
October 11th, 2008 at 4:22 am Tim
How do I actually give the voice mail the number? I enter my voice mail it tells me “You have one new Fax”. It doesnt ask anything or do anythign else.
Suggestions?