<div dir="ltr">I did find this page <a href="http://www.adt.com/customer-service/voip-faqs">http://www.adt.com/customer-service/voip-faqs</a> Seems that your phone company has to be:<div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;font-size:12px;direction:ltr;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;line-height:17px;color:rgb(77,92,103)">A Qualified “Managed Facility Voice Network (MFVN)”includes the following:</p><ol style="margin:0px 0px 17px 20px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;direction:ltr;line-height:1.6;list-style-position:outside;color:rgb(77,92,103);font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:12px;direction:ltr;line-height:17px">Has a physical facilities network which is managed and maintained (directly or indirectly) by the service provider. Can ensure service quality from the service subscriber location to the PSTN or other MFVN peer network.</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:12px;direction:ltr;line-height:17px">Utilizes similar signaling and related protocols as the PSTN with respect to dialing, dial plan, call completion, carriage of alarm signals and protocols, and loop voltage treatment.</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:12px;direction:ltr;line-height:17px">Provides real-time transmission of voice signals, carrying alarm formats unchanged.</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:12px;direction:ltr;line-height:17px">Provides professional installation that preserves primary line seizure for alarm signal transmission.</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:12px;direction:ltr;line-height:17px">Has major and minor disaster recovery plans to address both individual customer outages and widespread events such as tornados, ice storms and other natural disasters. This includes specific network power restoration procedures that are comparable to those of traditional landline telephone services in the same geographic region.</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:12px;direction:ltr;line-height:17px">Has informed ADT that its network meets the characteristics of a MFVN.</li></ol><div>Still how are they controlling this? Think ADT is smart enough to do a LRN lookup on a number, and see its not one from their qualified list?</div></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 6:21 PM, Colton Conor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:colton.conor@gmail.com" target="_blank">colton.conor@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">We are a CLEC and have a had a couple of customers port away from Verizon's landline service and to our voice service where we provided an analog POTS line with the same number just as the client had before with Verizon. We hook the POTS line up to the exact same wire going to the client's alarm panel, but the alarm can't communicate with ADT.<div><br></div><div>We called ADT on multiple clients behalfs, and they basically said Verizon is on an approved list to work with their services and our CLEC is not, so it would not work.</div><div><br></div><div>How is ADT limiting this? Does their alarm panels dial a special number that only Verizon knows or allows? This has happened with multiple clients.</div><div><br></div><div>We have not been able to get on the voice switch and see what numbers they panel is actually trying to dial, but any insight to this would be helpful.</div><div><br></div><div>I have read that some alarm companies uses a special code before they make an outbound call so the long distance gets billed to them or something? </div></div>
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