Came to me in a dream … with PSTN progressively being phased out, will that sound the death bell for fax machines?

Hi Cyril … I was in fact just reading a US article where faxes are still in vogue by health providers ostensibly for 'security reasons'.

I was just musing on the fact that a fax machine cannot work over wireless/mobile networks, unless someone invents a dongle or wireless/mobile machine 😁 … of course the recipient would need a similar device.

Rickles:

 

I was just musing on the fact that a fax machine cannot work over wireless/mobile networks, unless someone invents a dongle or wireless/mobile machine 😁 … of course the recipient would need a similar device.

 

@Rickles Of course they can and have for many years since the early / mid 90s was part of the first GSM spec

     >Of course they can and have for many years since the early / mid 90s was part of the first GSM spec<

Got a picture of one?

Rickles:

     >Of course they can and have for many years since the early / mid 90s was part of the first GSM spec<

Got a picture of one?

Revisit:   Just been asked how the replacement wireless phone 'knows' what your old land-line number is?

Does the new modem have a pre-prepared SIM card in it, or is the 'switch' done at an exchange?

Rickles:

Revisit:   Just been asked how the replacement wireless phone 'knows' what your old land-line number is?

Does the new modem have a pre-prepared SIM card in it, or is the 'switch' done at an exchange?

     >Exchange? You are asking about Wireless home phone<

I was, obviously, using the word 'exchange' to describe whatever black-magic base there is for running the wireless system … please excuse me if I didn't use the correct terminology.

     >Mobile number sits on part of the core mobile network called the HLR<

So you are saying that the 'old' landline number is transferred/added (for want of a better word) into the HLR?  Could it be said, then, that a mobile phone's SIM card number is merely a reflection of what is already on the HLR system?