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General News

SSN's top 10 stories of 2010

December 22, 2010Daniel Gelinas

YARMOUTH, Maine—As 2010 draws to a close the editors at Security Systems News take a look back and see what the most read stories of the year were. What was making the news? What were you most interested in knowing? Below is a non-sequential, categorized rundown of the top 10 most read stories on our site from Jan. 1 to Dec. 11, followed by a linked top 10 list. The top category for 2010 was “For sale/SOLD!” Acquisition stories had a large showing in 2010 with a full half...

ADT, Brinks Home, Broadview, David Smith, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), GE Security, GTCR, National Broadband Plan, POTS, Protection One, Timothy McGinn, Top 10, Tri-Ed Northern Video, UTC


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Monitoring

POTS sunset on the horizon?

January 7, 2010Daniel Gelinas

WASHINGTON--Plain-old telephone service--the mainspring of traditional burg and fire alarm signal transmission--could be coming to a mandatory end. The Federal Communications Commission on Dec. 1 issued a public notice seeking comment on a National Broadband Plan that could include a mandatory switch from a public switched telephone network to IP, similar to the FCC-enforced switch from analog to digital broadcast television that occurred in early 2009. For an exclusive look at how IP technology...

2GIG, Alarm Industry Communications Committee (AICC), AT&T, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), John Chwat, Lance Dean, Mark Wigfield, National Broadband Plan, POTS, POTS sunset, PSTN, Ralph Sevinor, Wayne Alarm Systems


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