Later I was wondering what happened if you had different suppliers for your 
electricity and gas. This fellow sort of explains that:

https://www.energy-review.co.uk/guides/how-do-smart-meters-work/

According to this:

https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/docs/2010/12/han-workshop---19-nov---ember-han-basics_0.pdf

 it looks like the wireless Home Area Network (HAN) that these things use to 
communicate in-house with each other and with the display use Zigbee, which is 
a Low power IOT protocol  that usually uses the 2.4GHz band.  See wikipedia for 
Zigbee.

Peter


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