Comment by riedel

At least in Europe the 868 Band is is in contrast to 2.4 allowed only for low duty cycle applications that do not actually occupy the channel for more than 1% afaik (given space multiplexing). I also remember also that the free to us band was quite narrow by design (we built sensor nodes bit banging a PHY transceiver that were in the grey area of unenforced rules, 20 years ago .l)