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Best Buy to Acquire PERS Company GreatCall for $800M

8.16.18 – SSI – SSI Staff Privately-held GreatCall focuses on personal emergency response services (PERS) for senior citizens and has over 900,000 paying subscribers. Following the acquisition by Best Buy, GreatCall will maintain its San Diego...

Fraudulent sales of home alarm systems are on the rise nationwide

8.16.18 – Digital Trends – By Clayton Moore  News flash: Some salespeople are jerks and a surprisingly large amount are actual criminals. A new report from the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) finds that door-to-door alarm system sales are a major new...

FARA Members NMC & COPS Receive Marvel Awards

NMC’s Proactive Video Monitoring Earns It Inaugural Marvel Award 10.18 – Security Sales & Integration – NMC has been among the first to use video technology to tie video verification to an alarm in an intrusion/reaction model that records criminal...

How & Why Ener-Tel’s New Owner Is Growing Its Footprint

8.6.18 – SDM – Karyn Hodgson When integrator Ener-Tel was purchased — by one of its customers — it started down a path of expansion. Ener-Tel recently changed locations, moving from an industrial part of the city to one of the highest traffic areas in San Angelo...

Thunderstorm + Lightning + Power Outage = False Alarm?

Thunderstorms, lightning and power outages do not have to equal false alarms. Download and Distribute the FARA Bulletin to educate your alarm users. Thunderstorms, lightning and power outages do not have to equal false alarms. Consider the following: Power surges and...