Despite having SM's for three years and my latest pair have been
reporting in fine for many months, the meter reader has just been round
yet again to take the readings. I asked them to take 30 minute readings
for my own records, but they seemed not to be able to cope with that,
but they do report and record the readings around once per week. Such a
waste...

I had a chat with the reader whilst he was here and he agreed the whole
SM system is a complete waste of money, with much duplication of his
effort. He said he had just had to go out to the Dales, where every
address he visited had an SM, reason was there was no mobile signal for
them to be able to report home..