Off contract soon with Apex, I'm looking for cheaper monitoring

[DK1000 <dke3591@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I signed up with Monitronics/Apex in May of 2005 during one of their
door to door campaigns. They wired my house with their goodies "for
free" as long as I kept a 3 year contract. It seemed I got decent
service (I have nothing to compare it to), but the only alarms were
maybe 5 or 6 falses I accidentally set off, and Apex called me within
a minute every time. They did come out in January and changed out the
analog cellular transmitter to a digital GSM one for free, due to
analog cellular services being phased out.

I read online that when your contract is up, that often you can have
your monitoring taken over by someone else for a far cheaper rate than
was in the contract. As I don't have a landline, my system uses the
cellular backup only, and I get charged about $43 a month plus a few
bucks tax.

Any idea which firms will monitor systems set up by Monitronics/Apex
which I think is just Apex now, for less?

Anyone ever re-negotiate with Apex after the initial contract for a
much better price? That almost $50 a month has gotten a bit steep for
me, thanks much,

Dan