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

["Norm Mugford" <1alarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Bob Worthy" <securinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "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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>
Where's the old keyswitch that turned the system on and off?
The designers and engineers couldn't figure them out, so they
replaced it with a ............Keypad.........
Now knowbody knows how to use the systems.

Norm Mugford



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