British regulator Ofcom has determined that telecom operators no longer provide fax services.

CTOnews.com January 14 news, the British regulator Ofcom has confirmed that telecom operators no longer provide fax services. Ofcom recently revised the Universal Service obligation (USO) to cancel the fax machine service. USO requires operators such as BT and KCOM to provide telephone services at affordable prices.

Ofcom's last revision of USO dates back to 2003, when many consumers still used fax services. But in 2023, few people in the UK will use fax services anymore. By eliminating this requirement, Ofcom can reduce costs for operators such as BT and KCOM.

Ofcom said the fax service would not stop supporting it immediately, but recommended that UK users use e-mail and other methods to transfer documents.

CTOnews.com small class: fax is one of the fastest growing non-voice telecom services in the past hundred years. The still images recorded on paper, such as text, charts, photos, etc., are scanned and converted into electrical signals, which are transmitted to the destination through various channels, and through a series of inverse transformation processes at the receiving end, a mode of communication similar to sending a copy of the original is called a fax.