our meters (gas and electric) apparently are very old maybe when house was built in the mid 1980’s. The meter reader guys are surprised and recon maybe we are on the winning side of what they read to what we actually use.
So no way do we want them changed, oh and they have not been tampered with either. Like us old and slow 
I am afraid we are all going to be bullied into having one shortly :twisted:.
According to an item on the radio, lower tariffs are to be introduced for those with smart meters that mean those of us don’t have a smart meter could end up paying £200 a year .
I am still going to hang on to the bitter end with my old meter.
Meg
if you go to “The Bitter End” you will have a great time
haha 
I warned about this over a year ago on other smart meter related threads.
Continue to hold out imo. You WILL win in the end.
The fools taking smart meters will see their bills double or triple in due course. Not immediately of course because they still have a very long way to go to get people to take the meters. Once they have enough people hooked up they will then introduce the awful VARIABLE RATE BILLING which will see people’s bills skyrocket as their usage in the evening is subjected to higher tariff charges.
All they can do to dissenters is put them on some kind of “non smart meter tariff” which of course will be expensive.
But it won’t be as expensive as those WITH smart meters when the axe finally falls.
If your energy supplier tries forcing you to take a smart meter remind them that the government has very clearly stated that THEY ARE NOT COMPULSORY.
If they threaten to put you on a stupidly high tariff for refusing one, then walk away. Show them the customer rules not them.
Go to any of a number of other suppliers who are still happy for you to use old meters.
Use less energy to punish them.
Install solar panels etc
Fight hard because these sh*tbags are doing this to gain £billions more in profits from unsuspecting naïve members of the public.
Got solid evidence of that?
I’m with Meg in wanting to hold to the bitter end. I just hope the vendor of my new house hasn’t changed over to one. You should see the old meters in this rental house!
I had this on file from a while ago, it might be of use for anyone wishing to change to a supplier not requiring a Smart meter to be fitted:
No Smart Metres here, not in my Back Yard.:-)
That’s about the measure of it I guess. Give some an inch and they will take a yard! 
This post was easy to Fathom out.
Twice actually.
Slightly more if you’ve gone metric though!
Counting in Tens, logical suppoze, and, since decimalization there has been little or no imperialism going on, and little fractional activity.
Lost for words now so can only agree!
It will have to be a dictionary for breakfast I reckon!
Yep, time for some literary fibre.:-)
You almost took the words right out of my mouth there!
Isn’t electricity measured in Kilowatt/hrs? Smart meters mean you no longer need a ruler to measure your power.
I don’t need/will not have a ‘smart’ meter. I am in possession of something called a ‘Brain’. This means I am perfectly capable of establishing which of my appliances uses most gas/electricity, I can read a meter, and I know to the last 5p exactly how much gas/electricity I use per day.
We need to pre-empt the charging of Electric Vehicles also, and what tariff that might accrue.