On 12/06/2018 13:43, Broadback wrote:

Eon keep pestering me to have a smart meter. They cannot understand that
they attempted to fit one "eons" ago, and fail;ed. it was too far from
their useless base to work. However they keep pestering me.

Maybe the mobile phone network has been upgraded?
If the smart meter doesn't work then the O2 network signal is weak.