the worst alternative you could choose. dishonest sales personnel mislead you regarding the equipment costs: prices they quote (which are outrageous) are presumably for the equipment but, no, for installation only. they retain ownership but never verbally explain that. when you are even a day late paying for monitoring, they threaten you with discontinued service and upcharges for reinstatement. more importantly: their response to an alarm is querulous! supposedly, a return phone call is made, but if you are not home to answer, they simply call metro and you go into a queue for attention which could be quite a while, depending on metro's other activities. i never saw an alarmco person show for an alarm. never in 20+ years. a complete and utter waste of money dealing with these incompetent and arrogant people. any other service would have to be better.