Re: autodialer with no land line

["nick markowitz" <nick-markowitz@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

United security products USP makes a voice dialer cell phone combo that
would work.

"Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> There is no cheap way to do this.
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> "Alan" <a__l__a__n@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> |I am looking for a way to set up an autodialer on my home security
> | system without having "land line" phone service.  Two possibilities
> | come to mind:
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> | 1) a device that connects the autodialer to my cell phone so that the
> | autodialer can call out through the cell phone network.  Down side:
> | requires an additional (compatible) cell phone and an additional line
> | on my cell phone account ($$).  I've looked briefly at the Dock N Talk
> | and a couple of similar devices.  All those options seem to be too
> | expensive for my taste (several hundred dollars for cell phone + dock
> | device + a year of additional line + autodialer).
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> | 2) Some sort of interface to Skype enabling the call to go out through
> | my cable internet service.
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> | There may be a third possibility.  My alarm system can close (or open)
> | a relay when announcing an alarm.  There may be a way to use this
> | rather than an autodialer to communicate through a computer (triggering
> | a SMS message via the internet for example).  Of course a magic box and
> | some software would be necessary...
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> | Has someone found a product to do something like this?  Any
> | suggestions?
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> | Thanks
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