Re: ADT buys Broadview (Brinks)

[mleuck <m.leuck@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 13, 3:57=A0pm, tourman <robercampb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It now looks like ADT is going to be buying Broadview during the
> second quarter of 2011 which will give them a combined market share of
> 35% of the residential US market for alarm systems. See the following
> link.
>
> http://www.securityinfowatch.com/Alarm+Systems/broadview-security-mer...
>
> Seems to me, in the long run, this is probably good news for smaller,
> established companies to fit in the market where ADT and their ilk are
> not present, or not very good..ie: full systems, quality after sales
> service, lower prices and less expensive monitoring rates. On the
> other hand, it's probably also going to increase the "free system"
> nonsense, as well as the presence of more shady selling "door to
> door", as the new mega-monster company tries to keep it's revenue
> growth increasing exponentially.....
>
> We live in interesting times....

That news is about 4 months old. Funny thing is their headquarters is
about 2 miles away and they still have the Brinks name on everything.

BTW I could be wrong but Brinks never did the free systems