• Tenebris Nox@feddit.uk
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    1 month ago

    Surely cheaper than enforcing mass installations. (Although it’s customers doubtlessly picking up this cost.)

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      1 month ago

      The installations have to happen. Why spend hundreds of millions of licence fee payer’s money the BBC doesn’t have on a temporary kicking of the can?

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        1 month ago

        And why can’t the power companies pay for this out of their eye-watering profits? I don’t understand why you think the BBC needs to be involved any more. (People I know have only had issues with smart meter installations that have caused just unnecessary stress. I’m pretty much waiting until I hear that they actually work better than half the time and that there are mechanisms to verify readings before I sign up.)