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Mount Everest Gets 4G Connectivity

Posted by Soulskill on from the good-place-to-work-from-when-your-power-goes-out dept.

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."

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  1. Conversion to foot by Conversion+Bot+v2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you were wondering, 5200 meters is about 17 ft. That is 19 ft above sea level.

    1. Re:Conversion to foot by jonbryce · · Score: 4, Funny

      17060 feet. You wouldn't per chance work for NASA?

    2. Re:Conversion to foot by FuzzNugget · · Score: 3, Funny

      And yet, it's still lower than the woosh sound that just went over your head.

  2. Re:Other way around by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

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  3. Re:Things are different today ... by Psychotria · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yep. gcc -O2 makes a huge difference.