British Gas Smart Gas and Elec Meters

I don't suppose the suppliers would regard that as sufficiently tamper-proof.

Quite. Mine's in the cellar. But I've no doubt BG etc will be pushing for legislation to have them all moved outside.

Or demanding they be allowed to use your wifi

So long as they're prepared to pay the fees for such. Starting at, oh, I don't know, the amount they stole from me at our last house move, for every byte.

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When the wind isn't blowing or the sun isn't shining and the French have sold all their nuclear power to the Germans.

Isn't it just a matter of time, when all meters have been moved to the smar t variety, that the gas/electric companies start charging extra for peak ti me use as a ruse to extract more money from us (as clearly they aren't maki ng enough from domestic customers already)?

Then you have to have the monkeys trained in where "a better place for reception" is. To get from our meters to such a place could be interesting and at a guess at least 30'. Our meters are in a windowless room with building between it an the local cell on two sides and thick solid stone walls on the other two. Mobile signal indoors? Don't make I laugh.

Regulation if not legislation has had meters outside and on the "front" of a property for quite a while. You can possibly get away with "side" provided there is no restriction of access

If they want to use any of my facilities they can pay for it, tenner a month will do, paid annually, in advance, non refundable. This fee would only be for permission to access my network. There would be no guarantees of availabilty of access and/or an internet connection and/or continued access/internet connection.