Category: Alarm Company Reviews

AT&T Officially Announces Release of Digital Life, their Home Security and Home Automation Services

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ADT Launches Home Security System

Big news for the alarm industry has just been released, and it comes from AT&T – arguably the “mother of all new entrants” to the alarm industry. Just after it seemed AT&T was having trouble figuring out its long-awaited offer of monitoring and home automation capability, now we have some hard facts on the Digital…

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Comcast Reviews and Complaints Prove the Challenge of Expansion into Home Security

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XFINITY Home Security

Comcast is not having an easy time breaking into the home alarm market. For those of us who are dedicated, long-time security industry professionals, it’s a bit of déjà vu all over again – we have seen cable and telecom companies enter (and leave) our sector of the economy before. What these companies don’t seem…

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Consumers Can Expect to See Door Knockers Early and Often This Spring, but Stealing Customers Still a Big Concern

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Door Knocker Inspecting the House

There may be 13,000 alarm companies in the US, but among the larger companies it’s actually a pretty small network – so small that news travels fast. And the news currently making the rounds is about door knockers: specifically, that this spring and summer may well be the worst on record for door knockers soliciting…

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Cox Communications Expands Home Security Offer, Announcing Launch of Cox Home Security in Virginia

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Wireless Home Alarm Systems

It seems that when it rains it pours, when it comes to cable and telco providers scrambling to enter the highly competitive home security and home automation markets. We’ve been tracking all these “new entrants,” as we call them, and although their offers can be confusing (even to us!), we are working hard to read…

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