On 04/07/2018 22:19, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article ,
F news@nowhere writes:
On 02/07/2018 15:14, Scott wrote:
I have just had (another) call from installers working on behalf of my
energy supplier offering me a Smart meter, despite my earlier refusal.

The proposal is to install SMETS1. She says there is no fundamental
difference between SMETS1 and SMETS2 except SMETS2 has a better
booster for weak mobile signals. I said that Which magazine had said
there could be problems in switching supplier. She said this was
categorically untrue. Does anyone know the truth of the matter?

She's categorically... wrong. A SMETS1 installed by one suppler cannot
necessarily be read by every other supplier.

There's an attempt to get around this by putting the SMETS1
meters on a common network (rather than each suppliers' own
network as is currently done), but it has failed to go live many
times.

Ah, thanks. I hadn't heard that.

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