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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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    Actually folk who babble their contact info into the answering machine are a constant problem, some minutes of random waffle about the matter in hand and then a number rattled off so fast there is no time to write it down. I have no interest in the division between area code, sub area codes and final no. The phone handles that. But leaving  a successive escalation of ever more distressed messages, each demanding an urgent response, but  none of which have any intelligible contact information is depressingly common. That or folk who say 'it's Derek here' or whatever their name is, and not realising this is of marginal use to me. (Parents of scouts going on Easter camps take note) Four digits is too many to write down in the time it takes to say them, and triples are about the upper limit. This is a feature of the speed to writing and the way the mind works. Replay on  the answerphone helps sometimes, but not in every case.

    There is a good reason that bank PINs, not meant to be memorable from looking over a shoulder are 4 or more digits, and numbers on the sides of vans that are part of an advert are broken into memorable triples, and in countries with longer phone nos, doubles. To me 02380  123 456 is just about memorable, but only because all phone nos start with a zero or a plus, and the memorable part is 238 123 456, you could do it as 02 38 12 34 56, and if you were in Germany or parts of France, you probably would,
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    Actually folk who babble their contact info into the answering machine are a constant problem, some minutes of random waffle about the matter in hand and then a number rattled off so fast there is no time to write it down. I have no interest in the division between area code, sub area codes and final no. The phone handles that. But leaving  a successive escalation of ever more distressed messages, each demanding an urgent response, but  none of which have any intelligible contact information is depressingly common. That or folk who say 'it's Derek here' or whatever their name is, and not realising this is of marginal use to me. (Parents of scouts going on Easter camps take note) Four digits is too many to write down in the time it takes to say them, and triples are about the upper limit. This is a feature of the speed to writing and the way the mind works. Replay on  the answerphone helps sometimes, but not in every case.

    There is a good reason that bank PINs, not meant to be memorable from looking over a shoulder are 4 or more digits, and numbers on the sides of vans that are part of an advert are broken into memorable triples, and in countries with longer phone nos, doubles. To me 02380  123 456 is just about memorable, but only because all phone nos start with a zero or a plus, and the memorable part is 238 123 456, you could do it as 02 38 12 34 56, and if you were in Germany or parts of France, you probably would,
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