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Mount Everest Gets 4G Connectivity
hypnosec writes "Huawei, in collaboration with China Mobile, has successfully deployed 4G services on Mount Everest, about 5,200 meters above sea level. Announcing the development, Huawei revealed that work was completed last month and users can now access 4G services like streaming live HD videos from the base camp on the mountain."
If you were wondering, 5200 meters is about 17 ft. That is 19 ft above sea level.
Video streaming? Only if you get proper authorization first!
Why is it I live in England, and get a worse internet connection than a mountain!?
This is me up at base camp at 18000 ft! Here are my fellow trekkers and the Sherpas. What a wild and crazy bunch we are! Wait, let me stand back and give you a better view of them. Look at them now! LoooooooOOOOOOOOOOK
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Oh, thought it was for the climbers to view porn.
not everybody uses meters
5,200 meters = 17,060 feet or 3.23 miles
You're not impressing anybody by climbing this joke of a mountain.
I wonder if there would of been "better" places to expand the 4G network?
...from Everest. Because it's there.
I have Wireless Sensitivity Disorder, and now I can't even go to fucking Mount Everest to get away from it all?
Damn it, I'm just living in a Faraday Cage from now on....
Verizon can't provide any 4G, or even reliable 3G coverage in my neighborhood, yet Everest climbers have good enough 4G coverage to stream HD video!?
So next thing will be to put a coffee shop on the South Col so people can spend hours there hogging tables with their laptops.
Considering that people visit and climb everest from all over the world with phones from all carriers (including phones without SIM cards), wouldn't adding extensive wifi not make more sense? At least I'm guessing that these 4g towers will only work with Huawei as individual 4g implementations tend to be carrier specific. It would be nice to know that I could bring my Sprint phone to Everest and be able to stream, blog, and Skype with it. I'm not saying you can't have 4g also, but if it's limited to a single carrier, it is, well... limited.
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roaming costs are higher then that fee.
A video call at $15-$20 a meg.
Problem is, I know that adding this makes sense from a safety perspective, and it might even save lives. But my gut tells me it's taking something away from the adventure, the essence of the human experience that drives men and women to attempt dangerous feats and explore the unknown.
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Isn't part of the point of visiting a remote location such as this the fact that you're at arms length from civilisation? Or are people so fucking shallow now that climbing the worlds tallest mountain is nothing without being able to tweet about it to other vacuous morons from the top?
I was going to say Chinese government is trying to steal private information from people using their network. That was before the NSA's spying plan being made public. Now I would just say please feel free to steal my personal private information.
What is traceroute for this service?
Is the stream stored by NSA before being broadcast to the destination?
How about we work on a way to create suits or set systems in place so people don't die up there. Prevent the loss of life, how about that. Now we can watch expeditions fail in real time HD streams.
Or....China can use the money and help the poor, feed the hungry, cure the sick. Yea, stick a balloon over a mountain that is in a contested area of which horrible crimes have been committed against. Yea, enjoy twitter Nepal. Sorry for all the S**** things weve done and were doing. Isnt youtube neat?
This sickens me, sorry.
They had never been that high before...
Privacy is terrorism.
Frostbite porn?
"Huawei, in collaboration with China Mobile, has successfully deployed 4G services on Mount Everest, about 5,200 meters above sea level. Announcing the development, Huawei revealed that work was completed last month and users can now access 4G services like streaming live HD videos from the base camp on the mountain."
Given that Huawei is more or less an arm of the Chinese government, those services might as well be a glorified CPC tap - with the same restrictions as those placed within the PRC.
(oh, and before someone talks about a certain US TLA, your own people don't die or disappear when it acts - unlike China which does it if you look the wrong way at the wrong person)
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No it's not. You're using the wrong denominator. If you're going to use the number of times Everest has been summitted as the denominator, then you need to compare to deaths among those who reached the summit. A quarter of 219 = 55. 55/5104 = 1.1% fatality rate.
If you're going to calculate a fatality rate based on the total 219 people who died (regardless of whether they failed or succeeded), then you need to compare it to the total number of people who've attempted to summit Everest (regardless of whether they failed or succeeded).
Do we feel good about this?
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
3,142 people have summited Everest a total of 5,104 times. Two hundred and nineteen people have lost their lives, with a quarter dying after reaching the summit. That's a 6.97% fatality rate. It's hardly something to joke about.
With today's ultralight gear and portable O2 its not quite the same climb that it used to be. And if you are paying a "guide" to carry your gear and extra O2 tanks its even less so. Not everyone who get their photo taken at the summit has "truly" climbed Everest.
Does everyone miss the point that this would be the Chinese base camp and not the one in Nepal?
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A Walmart and a McDonalds are built on top of Everest...
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south of NASA Parkway in the nice, suburban area with lots of subscribers, or North of the Woodlands where there's lots of subscribers. Or across the street from their own corporate stores in Louisiana that sell 4G phones. They have one horse population 1,000 towns in way out nowhere East Texas covered, but dammit, those not quite white collar urban and suburban areas just aren't worth paying attention to.
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The thing that surprised me in that news is that it's China Mobile who did that with Huawei. In China mainland, they did a big screw-up and China Mobile's customers are stuck with Edge unless they use a "special 3G phone" that I never saw any! Only China Unicom offer a proper technology for high speed wireless data connection.
When can I get it at my house? it's two feet above sea level, or about 61 centimeters to the rest of the world. It's sad that to get 4G I have to go to Walmart.
Mt Everest become Chinese? Despite being "right on the border" I'm pretty sure the country that it's known for being in is Nepal, not China.
Even Google Maps says it's in some province of Tibet, yet clearly marks Everest as being on the Nepalese side.
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Then why doesn't my cabin in a rural town have ANY data coverage to speak of? True, if I stand on the roof and hold my phone up as high as it goes, spin it repeatedly, and repeat for ~20 min... I may get 1X coverage for long enough to check e-mail once, but wtf?
Why the heck even do this. Bad enough too many people go up the Mountain. They must be charging big time money for roaming for any fool connecting to that network unless its emergency.