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Originally Posted by joey2665
I have had the Metro Cast Triple Play deal for two years and it is excellent. However there is one thing you need to know. The telephone line comes in via a cable modem and when you lose power you have no telephone and you do not have the abitility to plug in and old princess style phone into the wall that does not need electric to reveive phone service as you can with the telephone company, also if you have no electric the alarm in your house will not work either since it needs a telephone signal.
Other than this issue the triple play is an excellent deal.
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Joey, you should have a remote dialer on your alarm system to protect you against phone lines being cut or a power failure. If you were to have an electrical short in your panel that caused a fire, your home would still be able to call for help, call your alarm company, get this set up, for the cost of the alarm system it is peanuts to add on. You should also have battery backup for your alarm. If a power failure kills the alarm, there is really no point in having it, someone just needs to send a bat through your meter, then they have full access to the place.