Quote Originally Posted by Brian Henderson View Post
Same here. Mandatory, no warning, didn't ask, just showed up at the door one day, told me they were replacing the meter and disconnected my service, didn't care if I was using it or not, it was just gone for a couple of hours.
They are taking hours to change out to smart meters? Our utility sent post cards every week for a couple weeks explaining the process and offering scheduled timeslots if desired. When they actually to do it they had a set of jumpers to connect around the meter. They record the reading from the old meter (on one of those worthless computer things us Zeros program) and take a picture of the face, change the meter, scan the barcode on the new meter to activate it and pull the jumpers. The whole process takes maybe 5 minutes.

I'm not sure if they communicate over the power lines or by a cell modem. Maybe in your area they also had to install powerline communication gear?