In this day and age, the protocols do not require exclusive control over a band to function in spread spectrum modes.
Pretty douche move, and pissing off 68000 amateur radio folks in an election year may be unwise. =3
Meshtastic devices are really starting to see uptake among techies in general, and in the US, the primary band they operate on is 915Mhz. It's to the point now that DefCon will put extra strain on the mesh and the project has to release patches ahead of time. If news got there this year, you can count on some jimmies having been rustled.
People need the lower frequency to punch though the water vapor, and can't get away with <14cm without cutting range.
Using it for 5G bandwidths is stupidly inefficient, as it will cap out at a few hundred users a cell. Maybe they are getting the bands for cheap... lol =)
So at least all LoRa based applications seem unaffected by this. Though I don’t know how much traffic in the proposed NetNav bands will migrate to 915 MHz bands, crowding the spectrum.