On 12/06/2010 11:21 AM, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: > Ah, but it is not for me personally, it is for the ~20,000 residents of the US > Virgin Islands that currently pay $40/month for a POTS line just for their > alarm monitoring. As far as the reliability of POTS lines - in our area, that > is exactly the problem. The ancient copper pairs are rusting in our salt air > and haven't been replaced in decades, and the phone company is dealing with > bankruptcy, so won't be addressing it anytime soon. Dead lines are a common > occurance, and I am willing to bet that many of the alarm panels are at this > moment unable to place calls and the owner doesn't even know.
If the owner doesn't know, then they have a pretty terrible monitoring service :-) All the ones I am aware of here will notice that a customer's panel has not 'called home' in a short period of time and call the customer to let them know. -- Kevin P. Fleming Digium, Inc. | Director of Software Technologies 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA skype: kpfleming | jabber: [email protected] Check us out at www.digium.com & www.asterisk.org -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
