No company will tour the country, giving you new technology at about $150 a pop to save you money.
And technically, everything in the system right up to that meter is theirs.
If this gets you upset, but motor vehicle registration does not then we all need to take a step back and think.
Meanwhile they let the existing system fall into disrepair because they hired utility workers who aren't electricians and cannot fix outages. They drive around in trucks as "outage monitors".
We already have smart meters and they can see who's effected by an outage right at the MCR of who is with zero voltage present. Essentially a zero or a one. A normally closed set of contacts.
It's all about social and racial engineering agendas. Hire those unqualified for a job because they were raised by the welfare state. Now instead of smart utility workers we have smart meters.
Three years of reading meters was supposed to be step #1 in training a lineman. Now they took that away.