When I had my house built eight years ago, I had up-to-date optic fiber cable for internet access installed. The optic fiber cable has enabled me to use internet comfortably with its transfer speed. I have been able to enjoy what you call, "internet surfin", since then. The fast-pace of technological innovation is spectacular, however, and it has remarkably changed the present IT world.( <-- great sentence!) Now, you can watch TV via internet from the progress of the quality and speed of the transmit. You don't have to visit the DVD movie rental shop any more. You can order a movie from your house via internet whenever you want to watch the movie.
I decided to upgrade the optic fiber cable to the most updated one the other day to utilize the internet TV and applied to NTT, the Japanese biggest telecommunication company, for installation.
A few days later, SECOM, the security company, and gas company called me, telling that they had to modify their own system. I have used an analogue line for my phone, but I was going to change it to a digital line this time. I could imagine that SECOM used the phone line to know how my house was, but I didn't know the gas company was using the remote monitoring of my house. They seemed to have monitored the gas consumption and kept not to be short. If an abnormal condition was found, the monitoring system is designed to inform the company. If the gas leaked, the gas consumption monitoring system will catch the unusual gas usage and SECOM will detect the leaked gas. That is to say, my house is proven protected from gas leakage accidents in two ways. It's wonderful.
I'll report later about the internet TV.
(Vocabulary)
reflection [C] (鏡・水面などに) 映った姿［像，影］/ [U] よく考えること, 熟考
After some reflection, I decided not to accept the job. よく考えた末，その仕事は断ることにした．
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