Voxbone reportedly will supply numbers, origination and conversion services for traditional PSTN fax for the “PamFax for Skype (News - Alert)” solution.

 

Available for Windows and Mac OSX users, PamFax can be downloaded and installed by Skype users for free. This Skype “Extra” application allows users to send any printable PC document out as a fax and pay with Skype credit or a credit card. PamFax has now picked Voxbone (News - Alert) to add inbound faxing as part of its launch of PamFax 2.0. 

 

Voxbone officials say that the documents faxed to PamFax customers on regular fax machines are delivered to the users of the PamFax portal as PDF file. The solution then informs the user about the new fax by Skype Chat and/or e-mail.

 

The company was chosen by Scendix Software GmbH because it is uniquely equipped to bring several critical elements to Pamfax’s 2.0 offering. Voxbone has an inventory of direct-inward dial numbers (DIDs) in 4,000 cities and 47 countries. Under the agreement, 27 will initially be available to PamFax subscribers to use as their personal fax numbers.

 

Voxbone also has an IP interface to the telephone network that enables fax documents to be translated into TIFF or PDF data files. Moreover, the company has an API for the automated delivery of these faxes to any software or Web site.

 

Officials say that PamFax 2.0 will also feature support for Macintosh users, the ability to send multiple documents as a single fax, a redesigned user interface and portal page, improved fax quality, and a lowered price for on-demand faxing.

 

“An Internet business like PamFax’s inherently sells to a worldwide market,” says Dick Schiferli, Pamfax chief executive officer. “To offer the inbound side of faxing with the geographical range of numbers we needed, the reliability we needed, as well as an API for automated fax-to-PDF conversion, we really had only one address to turn to: Voxbone.”