Re: DAS NX4 Alarm - Dial mobile phone (Australian)

["Bob Worthy" <securinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> flynno wrote:
> > Geez thanks for that side splitting reply!  If I get a call on my
> > mobile phone from my home and there is no one home..........I am then
> > alerted to a possible problem am I not?
>
> You have to understand that we get this question and scenario presented
> here VERY often. It is the unanimous opinion here, that being called on
> your cell phone that your house is on fire, or that someone is beating
> your wife to a pulp while you're in a "dead cellular area" or in a
> business meeting with your phone turned off, is not at all a secure way
> to do it. And what would you do if you DID get a call?  Rush home? And
> then find that if the fire department had been called 20 minutes
> earler, you might have saved your home? Or ......... Call the police or
> fire department and tell them ....... what? That you got a call on your
> cell phone from your alarm system but you don't know what's exactly
> happening?
>
> If you feel that the security of your family, home and posessions is
> not worth a reliable connection to the authorities, of course
> ........... that's your decision, but not one that anyone here would
> agree with.
>
> If you have a security system, you have concerns...... why wouldn't you
> carry through and pay .75 cents a day to make sure a proper response is
> available, 24/7?

Because the manufactures are STUPID enough to make such a ridiculous feature
available. If they want to make a local panel only..OK. If they want to make
one that reports to CS...OK. But don't put the consumer in harms way or give
them such a false sense of security by having a panel report to a cell phone
or pager. STUPID...STUPID... STUPID!!! That is strictly a marketing feature
with no thought given to the possible outcome. I wonder how these marketeers
would look at it if they were held responsible for the possible results?
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