Smart meters apparently save money through being smart, labour saving, accurate, timely, and automatic.
Would similar or even greater savings not occur were the meters not rigged by a wire to work through the wired Internets or existing telephone of the homeowners/power companies. Who gets wireless service for free?
Why really is wireless better when wired fibre or telephone would do the job better for all and any household?
Who is being cheated out of a proper fibre service and connection to a proper fibre network?
Perhaps, two types of smart meter are needed with one type wired, and the other wireless, so that households could choose. At present only wireless smart meters are offered, but why? Why can't wired systems be smart?
Which is more costly a piece of wire or an advanced technology microwave receiver/transmitter.
It would seem that a further savings of several hundred dollars per unit could be achieved by being wired in and not having the receiver/transmitter etc at all.
Whose is being smart, really? Can't existing meters be adapted by a few circuits and wires to smarten and safety them up at the same time.
Who is carrying the extra cost / burdens of the unnecessary and unsafe wireless technology? Who are the gainers and losers, people in vulnerable small communities or shareholders and people in big smart ass companies? What types of so called progress are not really progress at all when long term health and pollution costs are added in and properly accounted for.
Better we dump unsafe wireless for good and develop wired fibre services to every household like we did electricity, telephone, etc.
Give real power back to the households.