Monitronics
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Monitronics International was founded in 1994 and is one of the three largest security alarm monitoring companies in the United States
United States
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. Headquartered in Dallas, the company provides burglar and fire alarm monitored security
Security
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 system services approximately 800,000 residential and commercial customers throughout the United States.

Monitronics offers telephone land line alarm monitoring as well as cellular phone alarm monitoring. Approximately 800 authorized dealers sell, install, and service its security systems and related equipment to residential and commercial customers. Monitronics monitors its clients' accounts at the company's central supervising station in Dallas.

History

Monitronics moved into its current headquarters at the One Valley View Place located at 2350 Valley View Lane in Dallas, Texas, just off of the Stemmons Freeway.

Investment firm ABRY Partners
ABRY Partners
ABRY Partners is a private equity firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts that focuses on investments in media. Since 1989, the firm has completed over $18.0 billion of leveraged transactions and other private equity and mezzanine investments, representing investments in more than 450 media...

 owned more than half of Monitronics until it was sold to Ascent Media Corporation
Ascent Media
Ascent Media Corporation is a holding public company whose primary subsidiary is Ascent Media Group, LLC. Ascent Media Group is a Delaware limited liability company , which provides creative and technical services to the media and entertainment industries. Ascent Media was a wholly owned...

 in December 2010.

Operations

Monitronics' national monitoring operations center is located at the Valley View Tech Center, 2300 Valley View Lane, Dallas, Texas, located south and west of the headquarters office building.

Awards and recognition

Monitronics was cited by SDM Magazine as a Top 100 company consistently since 2002, ranking it as one of the three largest security alarm monitoring companies in the United States.

Frost & Sullivan
Frost & Sullivan
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 awarded Monitronics International the 2008 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Service Provider of the Year for operational skill and for attracting and retaining key dealer accounts, as well as the 2010 award for Company of the Year.

Celebrity spokespersons

Chuck Liddell
Chuck Liddell
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 has appeared at Monitronics booths at industry conferences, and more recently, NFL greats Deion Sanders
Deion Sanders
Deion Luwynn Sanders , nicknamed "Prime Time" and "Neon Deion", is a former National Football League cornerback and Major League Baseball outfielder who currently works as an NFL Network analyst...

 and Michael Strahan
Michael Strahan
Michael Anthony Strahan is a former National Football League defensive end who played his entire career for the New York Giants; a career where he set the record for the most sacks in a single season and won a Super Bowl in his final year. He is currently a football analyst on Fox NFL Sunday, and...

served as spokespersons for Monitronics at ISC West.

Products and services

  • Home Security Systems (including Fire and Life Safety)
  • Custom Home Security Systems (including Fire and Life Safety)
  • Small Business Intrusion Detection
  • Health Monitoring
  • Medium & Large Business Intrusion Detection
  • Medium & Large Business Fire & Life Safety
  • Medium & Large Business Electronic Article Surveillance and Smart Electronic Article Surveillance
  • Medium & Large Business Preferred Services
  • Medium & Large Business Security Monitoring Services
  • Government Fire & Life Safety
  • Government Intrusion Detection and Control

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