Re: Telular Telguard TG-1 & TG-4 Service Pricing

["Doug" <not@xxxxxxxx>]

Telguard charges its dealers a base rate for a set number of signals per
month, additional signals incurr additional charges that are billed to the
dealer. I can understand a monitoring station's reluctance to monitor a
Tellular unit when they have little control over its use,  in the event a
unit sends hundreds of signals in a given month, then they will be on the
hook for those charges which they would have to try and recover from a
customer who may balk at paying the charges and switch to another monitoring
station.


Doug

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<racerx90@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Actually, I think the monitoring pricing sounds reasonable for the
> services. The problem I'm running into right now is that it doesn't
> seem to be so easy to find anyone who wants to monitor it with the
> Telguard TG-4. I've emailed 8 different alarm monitoring services now
> and everyone who responded doesn't want to activate it with the
> Telguard unit (at least those who have replied, there's still a few
> that haven't replied yet.)
>
> Honestly, it seems kind of weird as it's sold at several of the online
> Security/Home Automation companies (and it seems like one of the
> easiest solutions to install/configure), yet the alarm monitoring
> companies they recommend either use AlarmNet or Uplink - but not the
> Telguard systems.
>
> Anyhow, thanks for the responses. Hopefully I can get this straightened
> out (since I already bought the unit.)
>
> Bob La Londe wrote:
>> I charge 10.95 to 12.95 for cellular in additon to the monitoring
>> charge.  For stand alone I charge based on the estimated traffic upto
>> 29.95 for some locations.  Since I usually do not sell to DIYs I have a
>> pretty good idea what the traffic will be when I setup the system.
>>
>> The TG-1 basic charge is less, but its intended for sites with no phone
>> line and so the net cost could be much higher depending on the amount
>> of signal traffic.  The TG-4 is the standard plug-in communicator to go
>> between a panel and a phone line and the net cost can be much less if
>> there is a lot of signal traffic as long as the phone line remains
>> operational.
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