{"id":1051,"date":"2022-11-29T17:00:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T00:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.filecenter.com\/blog\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2025-04-20T11:09:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T17:09:31","slug":"fax-services-dead-alive-or-missing-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filecenter.com\/blog\/fax-services-dead-alive-or-missing-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Fax Services: Dead, Alive or Missing in Action?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Despite their near ubiquity in offices in the 80s and 90s, fax machines have become a rare sight in today\u2019s world of pure digital communications. Nevertheless, while the machines are now an uncommon find in typical office settings, the use of fax services is growing in 2022 \u2013 with 17 billion<\/a> faxes sent annually \u2013  and has been throughout the last decade of digital transformation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.03%,<\/a> the global fax services market will rise from $2.92 billion in 2021 to an estimated $5.47 billion by 2017. The driving forces behind the continued growth of the fax services market \u2013 in the face of competition with pure digital technologies that should have rendered the fax platform obsolete \u2013 primarily consist of the development of internet fax services and the end-to-end security superiority of telephonic communications networks over unencrypted over-internet-protocol exchanges such as email. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fax services may not be around forever, but they are here \u2013 and have niche uses \u2013 for the time being. In this guide, you\u2019ll learn what fax technology is and how businesses continue to employ it for secure, efficient communications. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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