Mount Everest Gets 3G Service

Posted by samzenpus on Friday October 29, 2010 @03:32AM 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."

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Because it's there by PatPending · 2010-10-29 03:35 · Score: 0, Redundant

First Summit!

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1. Re:Because it's there by bennomatic · 2010-10-29 03:36 · Score: 0, Redundant
  
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Re:It's true! by sznupi · 2010-10-29 05:05 · Score: 0, Redundant

They are not even in the top10 of most dangerous jobs, by fatality rates; but I'm sure they like the attention brought on them thanks to this fact remaining obscure.

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