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Mount Everest Gets 3G Service

Posted by samzenpus on from the yeti-bell dept.

bossanovalithium writes "It's what every mountaineer wants when they reach the summit of Mount Everest: a 3G high-speed communication. Those who have trekked to the top will soon able to call their mates, go on Facebook or Twitter, and boast that they got there thanks to TeliaSonera and its subsidiary in Nepal, Ncell, which have brought 3G to the Mount Everest area. Climbers who reached Everest's 8,848-meter-high peak previously depended on expensive and erratic satellite phone coverage and a voice-only network set up by China Mobile in 2007 on the Chinese side of the mountain."

6 of 150 comments (clear)

  1. Re:It's true! by boristdog · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let your loved ones hear you freeze to death!

  2. Mt Everest 3G Photo Challenge by abbynormal+brain · · Score: 2, Funny

    First person to climb to the top, take a picture of their junk, and post it on Facebook using the 3G access wins!

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    L'esperienza de questa dolce vita (The experience of this sweet life) - Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
    1. Re:Mt Everest 3G Photo Challenge by Thinine · · Score: 5, Funny

      ...Their junk to frostbite.

  3. New cause of Avalanches... by geekmux · · Score: 4, Funny

    "So, what caused the Avalanche?"

    "Dunno. All I heard was some guy yelling 'Can you hear me NOW?!?' and then all hell broke loose."

  4. Re:This is what we've come to. by nizo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just wait until the elevator to the top is finished in 2018.

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    I Am My Own Worst Enemy
  5. Re:It's true! by kenj0418 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I read "He left behind his pregnant wife" and my first thoughts were - "Damn that's heartless of him" and "WTF was she doing climbing Everest if she was pregnant anyway?"