Following in US Sprint’s footsteps with its free emergency phone calls home for American servicemen in the Gulf, AT&T Co has announced up a free one-way facsimile connection for family and friends of US military personnel involved in Operation Desert Shield: Desert Fax, proposed by the Californian Senator, Alan Cranston as a morale-boosting effort, will operate from AT&T’s 400 US phone centres, but its duration will partly depend on the take-up rate and the ensuing cost.
