Re: Why ADT Monitoring is better.

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On Sunday, 20 May 2001 05:54:51 UTC-4, Jacob Ashbury  wrote:
> Tom, this 15 second delay is a touchy subject.
> Many panels have the feature, some have it as a default.  Some localities
> require this of more.  This 'delay' has been touted for years as a
> stated/claimed false alarm prevention tool that works.  For the panels not
> having the feature where could the response delay occur- had to be at the CS
> level.
> Huntsville (rocket city USA) strongly 'recommends' it be enabled.  Let a
> customer have a few false alarms without the feature and night time,
> mandatory alarm school for your now ex-customer and a stiff fine soon after.
> Another city in Alabama starts out with fines.  With the built-in delay,
> whether at the panel of the CS equipment problems can often ameliorate these
> concerns.
> Many locales won't handle CID/SIA reporting because of anomalies in the
> phone systems.  A few locales seem to have a hard time giving the phone line
> back after an alarm.  Without a built-in delay the CS is placed in the
> position of having to dispatch on an alarm simply because the phone line is
> busy.   Some rural areas have local phone systems that are not ISO
> compliant.
> Seconds don't count, minutes do.  Police departments get fed up with false
> alarms.  Every police department I have dealt with has a 'list' of
> troublesome CSs.  A customer having a listed CS can go from 5-8 minute
> response to 35-50 minute response.
>
> Jake-
>
> "FREESBACK" <freesback@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:20010520024939.09438.00000522@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > ADT does NOT provide the best monitoring!
> > I see you neglected to inform the readers of the 15 second DELAY that ADT
> > REQUIRES every dialer to have. You are extremely "selective" with the
> > information you provide.
> >
> >
> > Subject: Why ADT Monitoring is better.
> > From: "Public Anonymous_Account " <remailer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: 5/19/01 9:56 PM Mountain Daylight Time
> > Message-id: <7d2267c976c01b33c7f2e613dcc207c4@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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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Normally, the Police doesn't get called before an attempt has been made to call the premises.