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Calling DNO/ power company types? Complex meter!?

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As subject really, my colleague has tried to switch energy provider, and the new company is saying they can't handle a 'complex meter' and that he has to contact the incumbent provider (a bunch of idiots) to update the records if this is not the case?


I've been an electrician for all of my working life, and have never heard of a 'complex meter'. What gives?


Edit: he has a non- smart meter, but a modern electronic job with LCD.
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    MHRestorations:

    Off the original subject but inability to understand how phone numbers work drives me mad... especially down here in 023 land. People still routinely quote numbers as 02380 xxx xxx or 02392 xxx xxx


    It's like they don't care that the area code is 023?!


     



    I think that the problem in this area is lack of cohesion. If the code 023 and eight-digit numbers applied to a sizeable contiguous chunk of southern English exchanges it might work better. As it stands we have in the setup just Southampton (first digit 8) and Portsmouth (first digit 9). Calls from one of these cities to the other do not require the 023 code. However calls to these cities from places in between, i.e. Fareham (01329) and Locks Heath (01489) do require the full number with area code, even those these calls involve less distance. This I think adds to the confusion between the code and the actual number.


    Things are getting more complicated and irregular in that calling a Bournemouth number now requires the code (01202) to be dialled in all cases, even within Bournemouth, for the reason to make more numbers available, i.e. numbers can now start with 0. It seems to me that it will not be long before this change runs out of numbers again and a further change will be necessary. Could not Bournemouth be a candidate for a 023 code, thereby making available as many landline numbers as it will probably ever need? Can any telephone engineers comment?
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    MHRestorations:

    Off the original subject but inability to understand how phone numbers work drives me mad... especially down here in 023 land. People still routinely quote numbers as 02380 xxx xxx or 02392 xxx xxx


    It's like they don't care that the area code is 023?!


     



    I think that the problem in this area is lack of cohesion. If the code 023 and eight-digit numbers applied to a sizeable contiguous chunk of southern English exchanges it might work better. As it stands we have in the setup just Southampton (first digit 8) and Portsmouth (first digit 9). Calls from one of these cities to the other do not require the 023 code. However calls to these cities from places in between, i.e. Fareham (01329) and Locks Heath (01489) do require the full number with area code, even those these calls involve less distance. This I think adds to the confusion between the code and the actual number.


    Things are getting more complicated and irregular in that calling a Bournemouth number now requires the code (01202) to be dialled in all cases, even within Bournemouth, for the reason to make more numbers available, i.e. numbers can now start with 0. It seems to me that it will not be long before this change runs out of numbers again and a further change will be necessary. Could not Bournemouth be a candidate for a 023 code, thereby making available as many landline numbers as it will probably ever need? Can any telephone engineers comment?
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