Re: Alarmforce backup

["thesatguy" <thesatguy1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We used to have a line monitoring service available in the US that phone
companies could offer and it was offered by various phone companies for a
time.  The charges ranged from $3.50 per month to $11.25 per month but in my
area Southwestern Bell wanted to offer it at $30. per month so it never
happenend here.  From what I have heard from various guys around the country
the service never was very popular and has gone away.

This would seem like an easy way for phone companies to earn extra bucks
with little effort but there must be some drawbacks I don't know about cause
none seem to be interested.

In the SBC areas they seem to be concentrating all their efforts on
unloading that crappy ADSL garbage that simply isn't worth walking across
the room to get.  Yet their crappy ADSL is now causing me a ton of service
calls related to all that hash on the phone lines that you cannot knock out
without installing an expensive router.

In this area we are now having a ton of cut phone cables but SBC has now
turned this to their advantage by charging huge fees to repair them instead
of making an effort to protect them when they do the installs.  Since they
make money on having the lines cut they probably won't be interested in
offering any monitoring function.
"Okitoki" <okyaysenturk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1121849802.855663.252910@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I would also like to give information on some of the applications that
> we implementing presently in Europe and the Middle East.
>
> Besides using technologies such as Cellular, RF, IP... we have many
> countries that have installed a very small yet very effective software
> on their main telephone company switchboards regionally. All modern
> switchboards have software to detect whether the phone line is open,
> short or parallel. So we just developed our own software in functioning
> with their major software that tracks all informed phone lines (the
> ones connected to alarm systems) and sends them to our main server via
> internet. We then share this information with monitoring companies at
> certain rates. As soon as a problem occurs with the phone line, the
> monitoring company receives information on the event.
>
> Our monitoring automation (A-traq for those that don't know yet:
> www.a-traq.com ) picks these signals up and informs the operators in
> less than 3 seconds from the event occuring. We even prepared a
> presentation for the telephone companies that they can charge extra for
> such speciality phone lines. So actually it is a win-win-win deal. The
> phone company gets extra payment for phone lines connected to the alarm
> system. The monitoring company is able to track almost real time phone
> line activity, and the customer knows that their phone line is traced
> so they too have peace at mind.
>
> There is no initial cost and just extra dues. But in the long run it
> has much more advantages.
>
> I know that this might be out of the main topic but I just wanted to
> give you information on international developments on monitoring.
>
> Take care.
>