"Martin Brown" wrote in message
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On 27/11/2019 21:17, Rod Speed wrote:


"Andrew" wrote in message
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On 27/11/2019 09:40, John wrote:
Can't see the problems! Happy with mine.


Until you realise that far from being 'free' you will ultimately
pay for it twice over, over its lifetime.

But save much more on the wages of meter reading monkeys.

That benefit goes entirely to the utility supplier. It isn't a benefit for
the consumer any more than having a Russian botnet able to thrash the
generation 1 smart meter users on and off the grid to break it.

so then the consumer won't be asked to pay for it, will they?

there's no up front charge to the consumer and any additional running costs
will be offset by whatever savings are made in the usage charges, which in
case you haven't noticed, are subject to competitive pressure.

FTAOD I'm not actually in support of this project, just pointing out that
you CAN'T claim that the companies will bank whatever savings do accrue for
themselves whilst pushing all the costs to the consumer

tim