Re: question about burglar alarm dispute (San Francisco Bay Area)

["Roland Moore" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Well I think you're focusing on the receiver. Many central stations actually
monitor the phone lines for activity before it reaches the receiver. The
receiver gets the caller ID before it picks up the call, so the logging with
automation can begin before the receiver even picks up. There is a separate
layer of software for monitoring phone line activity. I guess if you just
have a receiver and no automation software and don't monitor the phone lines
then anything bad like this can happen. Is that what you use?
"Doug" <not@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Roland Moore" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > Many receivers look for the "caller ID" number to determine what ack
tone
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> > give first. Even if the account doesn't get through at all, central
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> > will still flag it as a run away and tell you where it's coming from.
> > And bill you too.
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> You really have no clue do you?  the receiver can look until the cows come
> home but if the panel is calling a toll line which it was, hence the issue
> with the phone bill, then its not going to see anything and if the panel
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> not able to transmit a signal, which is the reason it called so many times
> then the CS can't flag it as a runaway since it can't verify the source if
> caller ID is blocked and the account number isn't known since the
> communication attempts failed.
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> Doug
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