Backbytes: Not-so-smart meters

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"Smart": a word increasingly used to cover up many failings, especially when it comes to the UK's smart metering programme

When the European Union mandated that every country in the EU must adopt "smart meters", our wise and intelligent rulers thought that by jumping on the bandwagon, quickety-quick, the UK could carve...

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