Do Smart Meters Interfere with Wireless Phones?

[pp111]

An odd question, I know, but I have a landline phone two feet from a Smart Meter and it seems to be losing contact with the base unit. I completely replaced all the phones with a new phone, different make, and its doing exactly the same thing. I mean exactly. Could this be due to the Smart Meter?

 

[BigBoy]

It is potentially possible, the smart meter uses GSM (i.e mobile phone network) and ZigBee (similar to bluetooth connection).

The ZigBee side of it could cause interference as it uses a similar bandwidth to DECT phone handsets.