{"id":86140,"date":"2018-04-23T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T06:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/scottish-powers-new-meter-wasnt-a-smart-move\/"},"modified":"2018-04-23T14:07:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T07:07:02","slug":"scottish-powers-new-meter-wasnt-a-smart-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/scottish-powers-new-meter-wasnt-a-smart-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Power\u2019s new meter wasn\u2019t a smart move"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWe have no signal and so I knew it wouldn\u2019t work … but it went ahead anywayLast February our electricity provider, Scottish Power, asked to install a smart meter. I immediately told it we have no trace of a mobile signal here, and, as result, it would not work. But it insisted, and in February someone called to install one. After a few seconds he concluded that it wouldn\u2019t work, and left without undertaking the work. Since that day, Scottish Power has insisted the meter was changed. It claims that the reason it cannot read the meter is because some gadget is in the wrong place. It insists that we must move this non-existent gadget nearer to the non-existent smart meter. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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