According to a survey by the digital association Bitkom, 82 percent of companies in Germany still use fax machines to occasionally transmit documents. In general, however, the devices are being used less and less.
A third of the companies still use the fax frequently or very frequently. In the previous year, on the other hand, it was still 40 percent, and in 2018 even 62 percent of the companies that sent faxes frequently or very frequently. Every second company now only faxes occasionally or rarely.
Nils Britze, Head of Digital Business Processes at Bitkom, said that faxes had long been declared dead in view of digital change. “However, once a communication channel has established itself, it usually takes a long time to completely replace it – even if there are now much more convenient and secure communication channels.”
What is particularly appreciated about the classic fax is the high verifiability of the delivery. “However, when it comes to the encryption of data and thus its security, the digital channels have a number of advantages over the fax. Digital fax machines pick up on this and use servers for data transmission instead of telephone lines.” This means that digital faxes are much more secure than their analogue predecessors.
2023-05-05 07:54:16
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