shown is in a state when handover to gsm is desirable e g poor coverage for w cdma in this region the relevant information regarding whether to hand over to gsm whether connection is permitted by the operator appropriate base stations channel configuration etc is obtained directly from the gsm device 113 since the gsm device 113 is already connected in this mode and to the relevant network no additional monitoring is required the overheads required for this operation are the power consumed by the wpan system to forward on the relevant network information in this second embodiment the dual mode device 114 issues a paging request and e g associated service discovery protocol to establish if any wpan equipped devices in the vicinity have network information that it requires another device can then respond if it has the relevant information this response may indicate details of the available information network type and operator etc the dual mode device 114 selects one or more monitoring devices from those who have responded to the request in this case from the gsm device 113 and elicits the required information the particular device s chosen to provide network information depends on a number of factors for example on whether a.