On Thu, 31 Oct 2019 21:20:22 +0000, tony sayer wrote:


They were putting one in at a radio site of ours there was a problem
with obtaining a sufficient mobile phone signal the mast for it was just
a mile away over open country.

Told them to sling it and leave the ordinary meter there which they've
done that was around 2 years or so ago!..

Besides the two generations of meters the smart meter comms infrastructure also
differs roughly in a north/south split. Not sure exactly where the deliniation
between the two systems is, presumably the split is by DNO area.

One of the comms networks uses GSM '2G' provided iirc by O2 and will remain on
that network so for a few more decades to come. O2 getting paid a wheelbarrow
load of cash to do so.

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