Tag: Cox Home Security

ATLANTA—Kristine Faulkner has been promoted to vice president and general manager of Cox Home Security and Smart Home, the company announced in a Sept. 5 news release. In part, she will oversee new Smart Home product initiatives. Cox Home Security offers home alarms with continuous intrusion and safety monitoring, remote access and electronic alerts. Professionally monitored and installed, it is currently available to customers in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island...

YARMOUTH, Maine—The editors of Security Systems News are pleased to present the “20 under 40” Class of 2013.Each year, the "20 under 40" class has some notable characteristics. In 2013, we have more diversity in the nominees and in the honorees.This is the seventh year we've asked readers to nominate talented young security professionals age 40 and younger who've displayed leadership qualities. We've always had at least four women in each class, and there were six in the Class of...

Erik Evans, 37Southwest region operations manager,Cox Home Security, Cox CommunicationsAtlantaHow did you get into the security industry?In 2010, I was a project manager at Cox and was asked to be the sales project leader for the launch of the new Cox Home Security product in Arizona. It started out as just another project that I ran, but the more I learned about the product the more I wanted to continue to be tied to it and see it grow. One of the reasons I was so interested was that my own house...

WEST WARWICK, R.I.—Cox Home Security, the security branch of Cox Communications, based here, is expanding its home monitoring service to Rhode Island, Connecticut and Ohio, according to a company statement March 19. In October 2012, Cox told Security Systems News that it planned to expand its professionally installed and monitored home security service after piloting it in Arizona, and they have plans to launch the product in additional markets through 2013. The system includes intrusion and...

ATLANTA—After a successful trial of its home security/home automation offering in Arizona, Cox Communications is now expanding Cox Home Security to six other states.“The service will be available in the California, New England-Cleveland (Rhode Island, Connecticut and Ohio) and Oklahoma regions by mid-November,” Todd Smith, director of media relations for the cable company, told Security Systems News in an email interview. “And we plan to launch in Virginia by the end of the...

First, Cox Communications began trialing its new home security/home automation in Tucson, Ariz. last summer. Then, it expanded the service to customers in Phoenix this April. Now, the Atlanta-based cable company announced yesterday, the pilot project has been such a success that the company plans to launch Cox Home Security—which is professionally installed and monitored by a third-party provider the company has declined to name—to other markets later this year. Where? That's still anybody's...

ATLANTA—Cox Communications has expanded the trial of its home security/home automation offering to Greater Phoenix. The expansion follows the success of a trial of Cox Home Security in Tucson, Ariz., which began last June, the company said.“We launched the initial trial in Tucson last summer and expanded that to include the Phoenix area in April. We've received good early feedback and results thus far,” Todd Smith, manager of public relations for Cox, based here, told Security Systems...