There is a very real danger of these smart meters due to the range required for the wireless signal, thus the frequency band that it puts out is quite high.
Up here in Canada, the first generation meters were responsible for several houses burning down. After that they were replaced rather quickly.
There is argument that we shouldn't complain about these as "some" of us use bluetooth and wireless technologies already. This argument doesn't hold water as far as making it acceptable to now expose every man woman and child who lives in these houses to these detrimental effects. One should have the option to opt out of this new wireless version of the meters.
The fact that the implementation has come with such an insistence and almost a sense of urgency leads me to speculate/wonder what other functions these devices have.....?? Just my musings. There are those out there who are deliberately trying to bring the world's population down to 500 million, which means that 6 billion of us are expendable (This is in the UN mandates) So ... what does this mean exactly? I don't know, but the question is definitely worth asking.
With something this "new" the long term health effects have not yet been done. I suppose that we are all the guinea pigs for this study then...?? We really ought to be concerned about this.
The argument that it saves money is only true if you own the power company. There is no one that I know that now has lower electric bills, in fact they have all gone up... So that can't be the reason.
Personally I get nervous when people, without adequate research, start yelling "hurrah" and celebrating the advent of a new technology, when there are so many unknown variables. I also question those who are almost angry in their opposition to those who are asking these "very logical" questions. Why is there anger over the questions? Is there something that they know that we don't and they don't want us to find out? Makes you wonder..... hmm....