RFID manufacturers and system integrators with equipment operating at UHF should familiarise themselves with two developments concerning the ETSI standard EN 302 208.

Firstly version v1.1.2 of this standard will be superseded at the end of 2009. This means that it will no longer be possible under the standard to place on the European market product using LBT and operating across 10 high power channels. From 1 January 2010 all new equipment should comply with v1.2.1 of the standard, which describes the use of the four-channel plan as the accepted mitigation technique.