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Ring just doubled the price of its alarm monitoring service for grandfathered customers

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge

Did you, like me, buy a Ring Alarm system for your home because it offered the most affordable professional 24/7 monitoring around, at just $10 a month or $100 a year? Then I expect you — like me — just got an email stating you’ll now pay twice as much starting the next time you renew.

Here’s the top of the email I received a few hours ago, telling me I’ll pay $20 a month or $200 a year starting in March, which matches the price of the Ring Protect Pro plan that Amazon started selling three years ago. I was previously on Ring Protect Plus:

Image: Sean Hollister / The Verge

Price hike.

Price hikes are always annoying, but Ring is still a relatively affordable alarm service, I suppose. The truly infuriating part:…

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