Re: Old Brinks equipment

[Hogan <napinc7@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ian,

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 US,=
 and that would mostly be landfills. That is where most units went that I e=
ncountered since the early 2000s.

On another similar depressing subject, Monitronics files & emerges from ban=
kruptcy!

Monitronics International Inc., which operates the Brinks Home Security ser=
vice, filed for bankruptcy after taking on too much debt and losing too man=
y customers. 07/01/19

The home-monitoring company, which is owned by Ascent Capital Group Inc., l=
isted debt of $1.84 billion in court documents filed in Houston, with plans=
 calling for the company to eliminate $885 million of that amount. The Chap=
ter 11 filing allows the company to stay in business and serve its approxim=
ately 900,000 residential and commercial customers while it works out a rec=
overy plan.=20
(Most of that is probably from customer lawsuits after finding out that the=
ir systems cannot be used by other alarm companies.)

You've heard the saying, birds of a feather, flock together... This certain=
ly could not be more true than these 2 companies. Unbelievable!            =
   =20

News Flash:
Monitronics emerges from bankruptcy with plans to hit public markets again =
08/30/2019. sigh... They've let the thugs out of jail again!=20

Chris Baloney is the new chief marketing officer for Brinks Home Security. =
Oh sorry, that should have said Chris Moloney.

I'll tell you what Ian, I will send you every Brinks boards that I find, an=
d you can send me every Monitronics boards that you find, since those are a=
 cinch to get into and divert to any central station.

It should be totally illegal for any company that fails to clearly warn its=
 potential customers that the motherboards are locked into the Brinks/Monit=
ronics monitoring centers! You know, there just might be a precedent for th=
at! I remember something about telephone companies somewhere in the past th=
at used to lock their customers' phone numbers into their services. I think=
 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

As an added benefit to this post, a customer told me about Cricket Wireless=
 years ago. 5 lines for $100 total with tax, unlimited. It is owned by ATT.=
 They did change it a little while ago, now you only get 4 lines for that p=
rice so, I am grandfathered in. You just go online to cricketwireless.com a=
nd purchase a sim card for $9.99.=20

Hogan