Please Blame the Deregulation and Regulation Fiascos Parte 40

On May 18th, Len Gould adds:

"the discussion on power line carrier vs. wireless standardization is ahead of the time "

Agreed. The issues goes away completely if the meter standard simply defines a "communications package interface and performance". Then any company can build and sell pluggin communications packages for a socket on the meters which can communicate to the market system in any of a broad variety of ways.