Fax directory growth

Press, 21 July 1989, Page 13

Fax directory growth

PA Wellington Booming use of facsimile machines is meaning similar growth in fax directories. There are now about 45,000 machines in New Zealand, only five years after they were introduced. Wises has just published its third fax directory in just over a year. With 12,000 entries, it ; has 25 per cent more listings than the second edition published seven months earlier. Telecom Corporation is due to publish a new directory in November with about 20,000 listings, compared with last year’s, directory with 8500. The managing director of the directory services business Kevin Reilly, said the deadline for the new directory would be September. He said he appreciated fax machines partly because they were invaluable in avoiding "tele- •, phone tag” where you spent a long time chasing busy people by phone. The chairman of 1 the Telecommunications Users Association of New Zealand, Terry Ballard, said lower prices had i boosted fax use. ; They could now be - < bought from about $l5OO. F ’f