"Andrew Gabriel" wrote in message
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In article o.uk,
"Dave Liquorice" writes:
Smart meters to save power customers £64 each across Wales, report says -
19 April 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-22205299

Smart metering, as currently proposed, is entirely for the benefit
of the suppliers, not you.

Maybe, but it can be useful. We recently changed to a smart meter at the
burger joint because we could never get a 'real' reading done, as we are not
open during the day. It was a total pain to receive a bill that had been
grossly over-estimated every month, and to then have to get it corrected and
re-issued. The smart meter has sorted that. Mind you, last month, they
reckoned that they couldn't get a signal from it, so booked a service call.
The guy came out and checked it, and said that he didn't know what they were
talking about, as it was working just fine ...

Arfa



With an effective industry regulator, it could have been the other
way around.

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