I don’t believe this is true. I was told If you turn on self monitoring, then then you lose the cellular functionality. I turned self monitoring off and I tried to change the procedure at the monitoring facility so they would not call the police and only call me in an alarm event and they said that they always had to call the police if I didn’t answer: I don’t want that because our police will issue fines for false alarms. Every other alarm company I have dealt with including SimpliSafe will support this functionality: it’s disappointing that Ring will not.