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The article reports on the completion of Coherent Remote File System (CRFS's) project to generate a detailed spectrum survey of the Great Britain Office of Communications (Ofcom) and the Great Britain telecommunications regulators. It states that the project used the RFeye distributed real-time spectral-analysis system, designed by CRFS for mobile and fixed-location spectrum monitoring. William Webb of Ofcom infers that the survey has provided them with an insight into spectrum use over a wide geographical area.

The article reports on the impact of Bluetooth Core Specification Version 3.0 High Speed (HS) of Bluetooth 3.0 on the ultra wideband (UWB) technology in Great Britain. It states that despite UWB's struggles, the technology offers a number of wireless-personal-area-network (WPAN)-specific advantages over Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi). Emma Naudo, research analyst at IMS Research, infers that the difficulty for UWB is that it is not mature and does not have an established ecosystem.

Many current phone models can act as gateways to the Internet for e-mail, IM and Web browsing. With a tri-band GSM phone, those capabilities-plus voice, of course-are available in more than 100 countries around the world. Just last month, for example, while in Great Britain for meetings, those functions pawed to be much more reliable ways to stay connected than the dial-up and Wi-Fi options on the laptop. Bluetooth headsets, which were just rumors or unusable first attempts as recently as a year ago, are common place in the present day.