Re: MONA T. RONICS

[mleuck <m.leuck@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday, April 29, 2017 at 12:42:48 PM UTC-5, ED wrote:
> QUOTE: Nowdays ..... any alarm system that uses 4/2 format or CID to a ph=
one line can be taken over.=20
>=20
> QUOTE: Those systems can be taken over just like any other system
>=20
> Yes, since the advent of the many cellular units now available, the panel=
 telco and account number are negated and irrelevant. But, there are still =
many systems only on telco and the customer is not wanting to pay the extra=
 charge for cellular... unless the installing company wants to absorb the c=
ost.

Guess what, these days the customer has no choice, POTS phones are dying
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> The point is not what is available, but the gall of 'Mona' and her 'Honey=
' colluding together to 'trap' unknowing customers to locked systems. For t=
he programming purposely shows "Locked" in the telco numbers. A security sy=
stem mainboard is more or less a complicated communication device with many=
 inputs and programming parameters as to when and how it will communicate. =
As such, it is technically subject to the FCC-the Federal Communication Com=
mission.

Complicated communication device? it's a chip emulating a modem transmittin=
g at around 100 baud, that's hardly complicated

> Additionally, because of the collusion, in that they purposefully attempt=
 to prevent other companies from using their system boards, it has run afou=
l of the other small department in the US called the FTC-the Federal Trade =
Commission, which was instituted purposefully to prevent anyone from such u=
nfair trade practices.

Tell you what, give the FCC a call and have fun, I'll wait...

> Further, Mona's 'Honey', directly financially benefits by the unlocked re=
placement boards that it sells to companies that yet only know this as a so=
lution. Until only quite recently, there has not been a plethora of availab=
le devices available to overcome the locked boards.

Devices have been available for years where have you been? Honeywell's own =
AlarmNet cellular radios never depended on what was programmed into the pho=
ne and account numbers section