Faxing is alive and well in 4IR
But what happens when ADSL is shut down? But what happens when ADSL is shut down? In 2018, the Mail & Guardian ran a story under the headline “ Who the fax is still sending faxes? ” Surprisingly they found “it still has a ‘massive’ user base”, particularly in the health care and financial services sectors. Government is also big on faxing. This is backed up by a 2019 article in The Conversation “ Why do people still use fax machines?” , which states that, “Millions of people, businesses and community groups send millions of faxed pages every day... It turns out that in many cases, faxing is more secure, easier to use and better suited to existing work habits than computer-based messaging.” Faxing is one of the safest means of communication against virus attacks and is a dependable means of sending secure data. A signed document is accepted legally because there is no way that an image of a signature can be stored on a network and faxes leave a t...