{"id":337295,"date":"2017-03-31T23:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=1471338"},"modified":"2017-03-31T23:00:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T15:00:06","slug":"twilio-now-lets-developers-send-and-receive-faxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/twilio-now-lets-developers-send-and-receive-faxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Twilio now lets developers send and receive faxes"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, this is not an April Fools\u2019 joke:\u00a0cloud communications platform Twilio<\/a> today announced\u00a0the launch of its \u201cprogrammable fax<\/a>\u201d service.<\/p>\n

While Twilio\u2019s general focus has been on reinventing the phone company\u00a0(with a focus on developers), fax is a decidedly old-school technology. But it\u2019s an old technology that is still an important tool for many businesses and government offices. \u201cOur mission is to fuel the future of communications,\u201d Twilio VP of product Patrick Malatack told me. \u201cEven though fax is not a futuristic technology, it\u2019s something we\u2019ve been asked about by our users.\u201d<\/p>\n

Twilio trialed the fax product with a number of companies, including the NY-based pizza delivery service Slice<\/a>. Local pizza shops tend to have their own culture and often, that doesn\u2019t involve having a lot of computer equipment to take orders \u2014 but they probably still have a fax machine. Slice can now send orders for its drivers to those shops using Twilio\u2019s fax service.<\/p>\n

Faxes are also still quite popular in the health care and real estate worlds, for example, and the company hopes that its new service will allow some companies to at least automate part of their workflow thanks to this new service.<\/p>\n

As Malatack noted, the developer experience for sending faxes isn\u2019t all that different from Twilio\u2019s MMS picture messaging API, for example. While that API takes JPG files as its input, the fax API uses PDF files.<\/p>\n

Twilio will charge developers $0.01 per faxed page, plus the company\u2019s usual telco cost for completing the calls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No, this is not an April Fools’ joke:\u00a0cloud communications platform Twilio today announced\u00a0the launch of its “programmable fax” service. While Twilio’s general focus has been on reinventing the phone company\u00a0(with a focus on developers), fax is a decidedly old-school technology. But it’s an old technology that is still an important tool for many businesses… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n

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