Alarm over IP - Giving VoIP Pure Plays “Triple Play” Potential?
Source: smithonvoip.com
Alarm.com has struck another deal with a prominent Voice over IP provider to offer residential security service and Voice over IP service bundles. Fresh off a deal with Vonage, Alarm.com announced today that SunRocket will now be offering Alarm.com’s security service to its customers. Currently Alarm.com uses wireless GSM technology to send signals to their security center, but sometime this year they will be releasing an Alarm over IP offering. Other security company’s, such as former customer of mine NextAlarm.com, are already utilizing Alarm over IP technology.
With all of the talk about the cable co’s and their triple play offerings, I wonder if in the very near future we will begin to see VoIP pure plays move towards their own triple play offerings, combining Voice, Alarm, and Video over IP as a bundled offering. Given all of the advances in the later two technologies (and the fact that Alarm over IP service from NextAlarm.com is only $8.95 a month), the buzz Video and IPTV is getting, and bigger pipes to the home I do not think it is that far fetched that a company such as Vonage, with a huge install base could easily sell additional IP offerings.
Given that so many think a VoIP pure play can not survive the threat of the cable co’s “triple threat”, what do you think about the idea of pure plays creating their own triple plays?
