Re: Google wants to be your Internet

[Bob Martin <bob () buckhorn net>]

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 :) )


Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu 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....