It’s often more practical for a company to transmit a document by fax rather than email or surface mail when communicating between two countries. If you are accustomed to sending faxes only to people who are located in the United States but now must send a fax to someone internationally, you will need to know what to do you when you see a “+” (plus) sign in front of the phone number. The “+” sign indicates that you must dial additional numbers when you are faxing a document between different countries.
Place the document that you want to transmit in the document feeder of your fax machine.
Press the numbered buttons on the fax machine’s keypad corresponding to the digits of the telephone number of the fax machine of your recipient. The “+” sign stands for the country code for the country from which you are calling. The country code of the United States is “011.”
For example, when faxing from the U.S. to England, press “011 44 xxxx xxx xxx” where “44” is England’s country code and “x” stands for the recipient’s phone number.
Press the “Send” button on the fax machine to transmit your document.
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