On Fri, 03 Jul 2015 00:47:29 +0100 (BST), "Dave Liquorice"
wrote:

On Thu, 02 Jul 2015 16:51:44 +0100, Bill Stewart wrote:

I doubt if any electricity company is fitting meters which will not
provide basic meter reading capability which would be accepted by all
other suppliers.

Do you have any evidence that this is the case?

So why do the comparison sites ask if you have a smart meter and have
help boxes saying that some supliers can't use the some smart meters
from some other suppliers.

If it didn't matter ther would be no need to ask.


They cannot use the Smart Meter as a Smart Meter: there is no reason at all why
they could not be used as a conventional meter and read by the occupant or the
meter reader - unless you know of one of course.