The Federal Communications Commission has voted in an amendment Thursday to make it easier for people to submit complaints about suspected robocalls and call spoofing directly to the agency’s enforcement bureau. Section 10(a) of the Traced Act, which is the agency’s tool to fight unlawful robocalls and spoofed caller ID, was enacted in a vote […]
Learn something new! TMA Education will host its next quarterly OPS discussion group via Zoom on Wed., June 30th beginning at 1:00PM/ET. Mark your calendar and plan to take part in this open exchange with your counterparts and subject matter experts. The topic of the day will be about mobile monitoring using GPS technology. No […]
National Monitoring Center proudly announces the 20th anniversary of the company’s founding. In those years, NMC has evolved from a single 10,000 square foot facility to two fully redundant leading-edge monitoring centers located in California and Texas. “We are thrilled and honored to have reached this milestone,” said Woodie Andrawos, President, National Monitoring Center. “Our […]
Micro Key Solutions and the New DICE Corporation have partnered to provide central stations who are using Millennium Monitoring automation software with the ability to add interactive and advanced video services with AI analytics. While the two companies both offer monitoring and video solutions currently, the partnership allows central stations powered by Millennium Monitoring to […]
Calipsa, a market-leading provider of deep-learning-powered video analytics for false alarm reduction, announced Sirix, a leading Canadian remote monitoring station operator, is using its False Alarm Filtering platform. Calipsa’s artificial intelligence-based analytics reduce false alarms by more than 90%. Quebec-based Sirix offers public and private organizations solutions for remote video monitoring, cloud-hosted access control, remote […]
On June 8th, COPS Monitoring announced that it has purchased the wholesale monitoring assets of Security Partners LLC at auction on May 27, 2021. Upon completion of the acquisition and subsequent preparations, the alarm companies and their 100,000+ subscriber accounts will be migrated to COPS and monitored by its network of six UL listed and […]
By John Hendel POLITICO AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile will each pay $100,000 to settle FCC investigations into the wireless carriers’ noncompliance with 2015 rules mandating they supply more granular customer 911 location data in the country’s 25 largest markets by this past April, the agency announced on Thursday. Looking up: The FCC had demanded carriers provide […]
Bob Bonifas, Founder and CEO of Alarm Detection Systems, Inc. (ADS), is pleased to announce the appointment of Amy Becker as Chief Operating Officer (COO), effective immediately. As COO, Becker will oversee the company’s day-to-day operations, which includes responsibility for all of the functions at the Illinois and Colorado locations. Bob Bonifas notes that “Amy […]
Shared by AICC Ten-digit dialing instituted to facilitate access to National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (Source: Texas Public Utility Commission) LUBBOCK, Texas (NEWS RELEASE) – Starting on April 24, 2021, Texans with phone numbers in the 254, 361, 409, 806, 830, 915 and 940 area codes should get in the habit of dialing 10-digits (area code […]
