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EDP is going to give us all new electricity meters that communicate their readings to a central computer, thus eliminating the need for costly and unreliable human readings!

Actually, they are going to sell us the meters, which we will pay for over the next twenty years.

It's a good job there is competition in the Portuguese electricity sector, otherwise this cavalier behaviour may lead us to deduce the the company is abusing its monopoly position!