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Re: Google wants to be your Internet

  • From: Bob Martin
  • Date: Tue Jan 23 16:25:16 2007

Our REA has been reading the meter via the copper running to our house for several years now. Took them less than 2 years to realize a savings. (And since it's a co-op, that means the price goes down :) )


[email protected] wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:18:09 CST, Brandon Galbraith said: 
Why don't utilities strike deals with celluar providers to push data back to
HQ over the cellular network at low utilization times (how many people use
GPRS in the dead of night?).


Especially in rural areas (where physically reading meters sucks the most due
to long inter-house distances), you have no guarantee of good cellular coverage.

The electric company *can* however assume they have copper connectivity to
the meter by definition....