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With the broadband enabled, to my surprise, my laptop has a phone number with which it can send and receive SMS. Now, would it be possible to send a FAX from the computer? It would be from a file or via a printer-like device-driver. Either is fine. The laptop runs Windows 7 64-bits if that makes a difference.
Itai
Posted 2014-04-30T13:14:49.490
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1In order to be able to answer this, we have to know more about how it sends/receives SMS messages. – LPChip – 2014-04-30T13:17:36.403
What in the world do you mean by "broadband"? You mean you are tethering to your cell phone? – psusi – 2014-04-30T14:23:52.353
possible duplicate of Sending a Fax without a fax number, How can I send a fax with Windows 7 connected on DSL?
– Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2014-04-30T15:09:01.063@techie007 Not duplicate. The laptop HAS a phone number and it's not my cell number to be clear. – Itai – 2014-04-30T16:19:21.400
@psusi - Maybe they call it differently where you are. Here they say 'broadband' or 'wwan' which means my laptop is connected to a cellular network. In this case a 4G LTE one but it can also connect over 3G, so hopefully the solution applies. – Itai – 2014-04-30T16:21:06.027
@LPChip - No idea how it does it and it even surprised me! When I activate the broadband service I got a 'Welcome' message. I try to send from my cell to the laptop and from the laptop to the cell and it works. That's how I found out my laptop's phone number :) – Itai – 2014-04-30T16:22:47.007
Maybe the laptop has a SIM card inside? – Darius – 2014-04-30T16:23:46.017
@Darius - Yes. It is Micro-SIM in fact. That one I put it myself, so I know. – Itai – 2014-04-30T16:25:32.103
@itai You may need to check with your SIM Card provider to see if they allow faxing over the mobile number. Also on Windows 8 (and most likely Windows 7) there is an option to "Print" to a Fax.. have you tried that? – Darius – 2014-04-30T16:31:31.210
Print to FAX does not work but good suggestion! – Itai – 2014-05-01T00:06:58.863