I was thinking of France, where the national Electricity provider is rolling out « linky », a 900Mhz capable meter. My understanding is that the 900Mhz range is already in production for french meter since a while as well.

A major utilities provider (A2A) of the Milan, Italy area uses LoRa-enabled (~865MHz) meters to get automatic measurements from the customers

Ahh I see. Curious why that has bled over to the consumer market I wonder.