India, Jan. 10 -- We have had another interesting decade! While it was not so engrossing as the 2000s, there were several developments worth mentioning.

Mobile Internet, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi

Back in late 2000, at the ITU World Telecom event in Hong Kong, the first mobile phones with Internet browsing were being touted. Back then, mobile Internet was all the rage! As, were 3G and Bluetooth! This was the 3G technology based on W-CDMA and also, TD-SCDMA. Those were also the days when 'WAP is CRAP' made more headlines, and bore the brunt of many 'telecom jokes'! Today, we can't even imagine a life without the mobile Internet! And, we are greatly bothered if we can't access a page on our mobiles!!

In early 2002, I wrote an article for Electr...