No, the utility company will not take it off. If you put the Guard on your smart meter it's not tampering. What we found is that the utility companies don't really care what you do to the smart meters as long as you don't do three things. First, never break the security seal. They get very upset if you do that and it's actually against the law. Second, if they do not get their signal they get very upset. They consider this "stealing" power. Lastly, do not block the access to their meter. There are a lot of people that put on locks, bolts, barbwire or contraptions to the point that they cannot access their meter if they need to. As long as you don't do any of these things they really don't care what you do.