Monitronics International keeps its employees on guard while its customers are away. The company provides alarm system monitoring services, which monitor signals triggered by burglaries, fires, and other events, to more than 700,000 customers in the US and Canada. In addition to traditional telephone line systems, Monitronics also offers broadband and cell phone alarm monitoring. About 400 authorized independent dealers sell, install, and service its security systems and related equipment to residential and commercial customers. The company monitors client accounts from its central supervising station in Dallas. Ascent Capital bought Monitronics in late 2010 for about $1.2 billion.

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