I live in a very rural area and love it.  But the phone lines are very ancient and I often get a poor line quality error message way too often.  

I now have a new fax number.  (800) 760-1936
  This is an internet fax complany.  Sending a fax to this sends it as a pdf to my email account.  I can also email a document and have it reach a fax machine.  I have found this service invaluable lately.   One of my collegues had to send a 42 page package to one of her clients who did not have a fax machine.  She was short on time and was not looking forward to scanning all of these documents to send to him.  I had her fax it to my email and then I was able to send her the file to send to her client.  It saved tons of her time, and made her client happy.

Yesterday my printer broke down just as I was making out a listing agreement for a client I was meeting in 10 minutes.  I was able to save it as a pdf and email it to my fax machine to print off.

 If anyone is interested the service is coming from http://aircomusa.com  The support has been wonderful and the monthly cost is cheap.