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Re: Old Brinks equipment



On Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 11:09:09 AM UTC-7, Hogan wrote:
> Hi Ian,
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> There are a few more places that they would be available throughout most =
of the US. I know for a fact of many places scattered around the southern U=
S, and that would mostly be landfills. That is where most units went that I=
 encountered since the early 2000s.
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> On another similar depressing subject, Monitronics files & emerges from b=
ankruptcy!
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> Monitronics International Inc., which operates the Brinks Home Security s=
ervice, filed for bankruptcy after taking on too much debt and losing too m=
any customers. 07/01/19
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> The home-monitoring company, which is owned by Ascent Capital Group Inc.,=
 listed debt of $1.84 billion in court documents filed in Houston, with pla=
ns calling for the company to eliminate $885 million of that amount. The Ch=
apter 11 filing allows the company to stay in business and serve its approx=
imately 900,000 residential and commercial customers while it works out a r=
ecovery plan.=20
> (Most of that is probably from customer lawsuits after finding out that t=
heir systems cannot be used by other alarm companies.)
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> You've heard the saying, birds of a feather, flock together... This certa=
inly could not be more true than these 2 companies. Unbelievable!          =
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> News Flash:
> Monitronics emerges from bankruptcy with plans to hit public markets agai=
n 08/30/2019. sigh... They've let the thugs out of jail again!=20
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> Chris Baloney is the new chief marketing officer for Brinks Home Security=
. Oh sorry, that should have said Chris Moloney.
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> I'll tell you what Ian, I will send you every Brinks boards that I find, =
and you can send me every Monitronics boards that you find, since those are=
 a cinch to get into and divert to any central station.
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> It should be totally illegal for any company that fails to clearly warn i=
ts potential customers that the motherboards are locked into the Brinks/Mon=
itronics monitoring centers! You know, there just might be a precedent for =
that! I remember something about telephone companies somewhere in the past =
that used to lock their customers' phone numbers into their services. I thi=
nk that now you can keep your number...Hmm. I think that is why I can move =
my 5 cellular phone numbers to anyone's service, as I please.=20
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> As an added benefit to this post, a customer told me about Cricket Wirele=
ss years ago. 5 lines for $100 total with tax, unlimited. It is owned by AT=
T. They did change it a little while ago, now you only get 4 lines for that=
 price so, I am grandfathered in. You just go online to cricketwireless.com=
 and purchase a sim card for $9.99.=20
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> Hogan

How many did you come across


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