Apartment Telephone Intercom Tutorial

Telephone Auto-Dialer vs. Telephone Hardwired Entry System

Furthermore, with auto-dial entry systems residents must order call waiting service from the local phone company. Their phone line must have call waiting service so they can be alerted on a door entry call while they are on a phone call. At the same time, call waiting may cause disruption to internet use of the phone line since call waiting tones will disconnect their computer modems from the internet when they are online. Or else they will need to disable call waiting every time they go online, at the risk of forgetting to restore it when they go offline! That also means they won't get a door entry call while they are online. These are serious issues due to the generalized use of internet today.

Moreover, auto-dial entry systems are subject to the numbering plan of local phone companies putting at risk owners's investment in a telephone entry system. Many owners  every day bitterly find themselves constrained to make the change. With most phone companies gradually updating their public offices from 7-digit phone numbers to 10 digits, the generation of entry systems designed to handle 7-digit phone numbers have become obsolete. Increasing auto-dial capability in newer versions of these entry systems to more than 7 digits still leave them completely vulnerable to future changes in the numbering system or otherwise by local phone companies.

Hardwired telephone entry systems are immune to most of these problems. By tying directly into the existing physical phone wirelines inside the building phone room (as opposed to a dedicated and billable subscriber phone line) they allow relatively inexpensive install for moderately sized condos as auto-dialers otherwise do. They do so without incurring all the issues known to auto-dialer entry systems. While auto-dialers might still be in the balance a valid solution for condominiums with over 100 suites (despite the many weaknesses) and for remote call forwarding for all suites as well, hard-wired telephone entry systems are a better solution in many respects for condominiums with less than 100 suites. More cost-effective, more secure, less obtrusive to phone line overlay services (less headaches with residents), immune to costly continual maintenance, immune to obsolescence, protects better your investment, saves you hundreds if not thousands of dollars a year in phone bills... The OmniCom system picks it from there and additionally brings an extended, true and unique array of entry access intercom services to apartment residents. Install and forget. The choice is clear!

Finally, and this cannot be overstated: when you compare the cost structure associated with both solutions, be sure you understand that for the most part, you have on one side after-install continued LIFETIME costs + potential problems + real problems versus on the other side after-install virtually zero costs and zero problems!

If an Auto-Dialer Entry System is still right for you see how you can benefit from our hybrid systems.

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