Amazon Ring Launches $10 Monthly Professional Alarm Monitoring

While I think ADT has advantages moving upmarket and adding more advanced features, given how determined 'Silicon Valley' is to move into this market, even if ADT executes perfectly upmarket, they are going to get picked off again and again from the growth of Amazon / Ring, making revenue growth difficult and undermining profits.

And while the historical comparison to the MSOs and then DIYs like Simplisafe point to the traditional providers surviving, the Amazon/Ring threat is far tougher, given their (1) much greater reach and (2) much lower pricing. Agree/disagree?

The security dealers who get RMR will probably see their payment rates cut, as well, as the traditional central stations cut their rates to compete.  Maybe Amazon will also add a program to compensate those who refer monitoring to them?

Another thought...hosting services provided by Brevo, Feenics, etc, might someday be supplanted by Amazon, et al, as well?  After all, it's only software.

Another concern is that more cities and states are requiring video verification to send police at all or to send within a reasonable time. Is Amazon verifying video? 

I want to know who's doing their monitoring or if they're doing it themselves. $10 is really cheap. My costs are higher than that when you consider monitoring, cellular radio and app fees.

Great, now someone else can look at the alarm cause and see it was just my stupid cat changing positions during the day, and not someone stealing my stuff. Haha

I think for sure that; alarm monitoring stations, alarm dealers, and most manufacturers will need to lower their pricing to compete and for many that will spell doom. But I also believe from my limited experience in alarms that they still require service and what will be gained by the consumer may be eaten up by the tech. 

And then there is the Trump factor, not sure but if Ring is built in China it could be subject to special super duties, if enough industry people lobby him - as I understand Trump is not a great fan of Amazon either. Trump could save this industry and get a special IPVM humanitarian award - what you think John, can you swing that 

Have noted with interest recent radio commercials by Alarm.com, where a frustrated end user calls them and asks for assistance with the DIY alarm system and video doorbell he bought on line and now cannot get them working. 

The response is that alarm.com only works through qualified installers using commercial grade equipment.  It will be interesting to see if Alarm.com gets positive results from this approach.