Re: Why ADT Monitoring is better.

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On Sunday, 20 May 2001 05:52:01 UTC-4, Jackson  wrote:
> Can someone explain how the ADT redunduncy thinggie works in technical terms
> ? Like, how it is switch over to another station in another area ?
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> The way I look at it, if the local area is hit with a quake, the local
> telephone network will be so tied up that monitoring or not makes no
> difference anyway. Just like the one that hit Washington state a month or
> two ago,  our local phone service up in the west coast of Canada went out of
> service for a couple of hours for most area. Even if it works, you think any
> body is going to response to a house alarm ????? There are more important
> things to do.
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> "Public <Anonymous_Account>" <remailer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > ADT provides the best monitoring service in the industry.
> > As a informed customer you should look for two things when
> > selection a monitoring service to protect your home or
> > business.
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> > 1. The monitoring center should be UL listed.  This means that
> > the central station has been inspected by UL and found to meet
> > their standards.  Many insurance companies require their high-
> > security customers such as banks and jewelry stores have both
> > UL inspected systems and monitoring service.  It follows that
> > a central station held to these high standards would better
> > serve the needs of any security system owner.  It's too bad that
> > many small, local companies farm out their monitoring services
> > to unknown third party centers or attempt to monitor the systems
> > themselves often using a room in someone's home as a central station.
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> > 2. The second thing to look for when selecting a monitoring company
> > is redundancy.  Ask a representative from your local alarm dealer
> > what would happen if his central station was hit by a tornado, hurricane,
> > earthquake or other disaster.  How long would your home or business
> > be subject to looting with no alarm protection?  Chances are you would
> > have been evacuated and would be unable to verify whether or not
> > anyone was monitoring your system.  ADT has the only fully redundant
> > monitoring system on the planet.  Only ADT customers would be protected
> > in a disaster since, if one central station was destroyed, another could
> > simply start monitoring the accounts.  In fact ADT has five central
> > stations located in the United States alone.  Each one is capable of
> > monitoring all of the accounts in the ADT network.
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The owners and neighbors can be notified, not just the cops.  Yes, it is technically possible, IMO.  Took me a minute of pondering to figure this one out.  That's why ADT is the best!  They are smarter ... way smarter.