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Bavaria: Fax ban planned – Digital Minister wants to kill gray boxes

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“Not up to date anymore”
Fax ban planned in Bavaria: Digital Minister wants to kill the gray boxes

The farewell to the fax continues.

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Fax machines, overhead projectors, Walkmans – there is technology that today represents digital backwardness. Bavaria’s Digital Minister Mehring no longer wants to accept this and wants to put an end to faxes.

Bavaria’s new Digital Minister Fabian Mehring (Free Voters) is planning a fax ban for the Free State authorities. “Fax machines are no longer up to date and are a relic from another time,” Mehring told the “Augsburger Allgemeine”. For many people, fax machines have long been a symbol of backwardness in digital transformation. “Our Bavaria is a high-tech country. We should therefore lead the way nationwide and be the first federal state to pull the plug on faxes in public administration,” said Mehring.

Communication in Bavaria only takes place in digital form

The minister wants to present a catalog of measures to the Bavarian cabinet next year, according to which, after a certain transition period, documents in Bavarian authorities should only be transmitted in digital form instead of by fax machine, the newspaper continues.

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According to the Free Voters politician, Bavaria is the first federal state that wants to ban fax machines from its authorities and administrations across the board. In the summer, the state government stated the number of fax machines in its administrations at just under 4,000.

A relic from another time

The fax machine was invented in the late 19th century and came to Germany in the 20th century. In the 1970s and 1980s it experienced rapid spread in German companies and private households. The Deutsche Bundespost played a leading role in establishing this communication technology. With its advent, the fax revolutionized the transmission of documents by enabling real-time correspondence.

Although the fax machine has now been replaced by more modern communication methods such as email and smartphones, it maintains its place in some specific areas of application, such as law and medicine.