Home phones are going away.
They were staples in our homes for decades:
Your grandparents had them.
Your parents had them.
If you’re old enough, you’ve had them….but most of us don’t any longer.
Most home phones in use today are only there to serve a need other than daily talking to others.  Some keep them as a backup to their cell phone.  Many keep them just for their alarm systems to use to communicate to the central station. Many homeowners that still have a home phone don’t even know the phone number because they don’t use the phone.
Phone lines (POTS – Plain Ol Telephone Service) are becoming less and less reliable. Phone companies want to convert the copper that used to carry voice and start using it for internet. Since alarm digital dialers were engineered in the 1960s, many won’t communicate reliably over today’s phone service that go through several analog to digital and back to analog conversions.
If your alarm system is still using a phone line to communicate to the central station, please consider upgrading the technology to network or cellular communicators.  Ideally, the system you use would use both network AND cellular.  The cost to convert is small, and your return on investment would happen very quickly because you would no longer have to pay for the home phone service.
Want to learn more? We would be honored to speak with you about all the options a cellular/network communicator would allow, like using a smart phone app to arm/disarm your system.
Guard Tronic
Proven Property Protection for Over 62 Years.
(800) 542-7866
info@guardtronic.com