Re: Direct tv wants to sell you a home security system

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In Massachusetts Comcast is advertising to install burglar alarms,
cameras, video, monitoring etc. -- all without being licensed by the
Commonwealth of Masachusetts, Division of Professional Licensure
(formerly the  Board of Electrical Examiners), the legal body for
licensing electricians.

Those of us who own and operate companies that perform the work of
installing alarm systems have been licensed for many years, and must
renew the licenses every two years, provided that we attend twenty-one
hours of continuing education in each of those two-year periods. All
installers and owners must be licensed.

Additionally, the law requires that all employees of alarm and
security companies, including employees of central stations, sales and
office personnel be checked for criminal records.

The state has gone to court to stop Comcast, but there is a
stipulation in the law, that the company may continue doing the work,
free from stoppage, while the case winds its way through the courts
until finally ajudicated.

The stipulation is there to protect the small installer from losing
his source of income due to a wiring inspector who may have mistakenly
(or intentionally) stopped the installer -- until final ajudication.

Comcast is not a small installer!  In the meantime, because of their
ability to grab the eyes and ears of every one of their customers,
they are in effect taking business from thousands of properly licensed
Massachusetts alarm companies and their installers while Comcast
lawyers do their thing.

Whether an injunction is soon issued remains to be seen.

Is Comcast or any other similar vendor operating in your state without
being properly licensed by your state, if indeed your state requires
licensing?

I will provide updates here as they occur in Massachusetts.



On Sat, 8 Jun 2013 05:13:45 -0700 (PDT), NickMark
<nmarkowitz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>http://consumerist.com/2013/06/07/directv-wants-to-sell-you-a-home-security-system/
>
>hope they loose there as like att did in 80's and is stupid enough to come back for more