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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!
Oh, thought it was for the climbers to view porn.
Everybody living in the 21st century should.
...from Everest. Because it's there.
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!?
Feet are deprecated. You are welcome to make your own conversion :)
How is it a "joke of a mountain"?
"Tell me doctor, with all of your defenses, are there any provisions for an attack by killer bees?"
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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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.
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.
Because the mountain is famous.
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I, personally, appreciate my feet. Don't depreciate your feet!
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The GP must be planning to make an ascent of Mt. Olympus once Elon is offering commercial transit.
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No matter what China does, the world still considers them a "cheap" country with low quality and no industry leadership. Putting the first 4G on Everest counts as a win against that. Gets Chinese innovation in the news, and help dispel the myth that China exists only to fill Wal-Mart's shelves.
What "better" place do you suggest for that?
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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?
haha, everest for retreating from society ?!?! hahaha hahahaha ahahah, you're talking about a place where most everyone has personal hired help, even if they don't have that at home and pretty much everyone goes there for bragging rights. you'd be better off mining gold in lapland for retreating from civilization! no queues there, unlike at mt everest.
shitloads of mosquitos though in lapland in summer..
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
So, your contention is that it's "too easy" to climb and therefore the mountain itself is some kind of absurdity? You must hate every minor hill on the planet.
"Tell me doctor, with all of your defenses, are there any provisions for an attack by killer bees?"
So is England.
They had never been that high before...
Privacy is terrorism.
Hey! You do realise that you're talking about the mountain with the biggest tits in the world, don't you?
Show a little respect, please.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
The Sun never setting on Britain's empire is a faded memory when it ended a very long time ago; England is perceived as just another back water pub. You need to let it go.
hard to let it go I suppose when Everest is named by brits and stories about it keep coming up, that's why we call it mount everest and everyone calls it that and not some actual tsinkelotonkelo native name.
(last I checked the sun never set in the empire, too)
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
England isn't in China, except for Hong Kong, which already has 4G.
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What is traceroute for this service?
Is the stream stored by NSA before being broadcast to the destination?
If it routes through USA probably greatly depends on your location.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Frostbite porn?
Why? Many people prefer metres! :D
"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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Have gnu, will travel.
If you want a challenge, the K2 is smaller than the Everest, but it kills much more people
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).
What a weird thing to write.
Your reading comprehension doesn't affect the meaning. They are known for "cheap knockoffs" more than anything else. The country of piracy, lead children toys, and all that. I helped a friend with a translation. The Lewisville Lizards placed an order for stuffed lizards. "cheapest material possible" I'm sure they got what they asked for, and will forever blame China for giving them what they asked for (well, would if they weren't a defunct one-season team with no league).
I said nothing to indicate that the moniker was earned, and I even put it in quotes. Your inability to understand what's written doesn't mean I said something other than what I meant. They are perceived to be cheap, and that does affect their auto export business, or router export business. And if you look at the negative comments against China recently (even within the other comments in this article), it seems that the perception is a modern one, not a forgotten holdover from the 1980s.
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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.
The word, if you're referring to a standard of measurement, is metre(s). A meter is a device that measures things and also a term used in music. I know that American spelling uses meter but they really are two different things and deservedly have two different words internationally.
Now look at how the death rate has changed over time - it dropped dramatically by 1990, and remained at that lower number even as the number of ascents soared. So talking about the death rate going back to the 1950s is quite misleading.
Does everyone miss the point that this would be the Chinese base camp and not the one in Nepal?
hard to let it go I suppose when Everest is named by brits and stories about it keep coming up, that's why we call it mount everest and everyone calls it that and not some actual tsinkelotonkelo native name.
The use of Chomolungma as the name is increasing in popularity, and the days of Mt Everest are probably numbered. Just like most people don't say Ayer's Rock any more, but call it Uluru.
The Sun never setting on Britain's empire is a faded memory when it ended a very long time ago; England is perceived as just another back water pub. You need to let it go.
Err no, still going
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Life has a 100% fatality rate. It's something to joke about.
What's black and white and red all over? A nun beaten to death. Ha ha! Classic.
I.e. just because you might not find it funny, doesn't mean that there should never be jokes made about it. Just because you find the topic serious, doesn't mean everyone does.
Also, the GP didn't even mention people dying. You did. Why do you think it's at all relevant to the GP's post?
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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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While on holiday in Northumberland and Cumbria I was actually pleasantly surprised by the speed and coverage and even the price for 3G data. £25 for a huawei dongle and 2Gbyte data. At the time I would have paid €100 down here for the same hardware and number of bytes. Yes, coverage in the Pennines was restricted to near roads and villages, but that is to be expected.
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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The other thing that doesn't get much attention is the reason for the price difference. It isn't labor. It's regulation. Environmental regulations add more to the difference than labor does. If labor was the driving factor, then China wouldn't be automating and still holding manufacturing contracts. Labor is cheaper in India and Africa. Sure, stuff will go there eventually, but the labor isn't that much of the cost in an automated factory. I've been in TI's manufacturing facility and Huawei's manufacturing facility, and they are comparable (Huawei is more automated than TI was 10+ years ago when I was last there, but the time frame wasn't the same). But China will be cheaper because a little heavy metal dumped in the river won't get nearly the response in Shenzhen as it would in Dallas. That and the worker safety isn't the same, nor the compliance cost for OSHA/insurance. Wages are almost inconsequential when you add up all the other costs. It matters when you are fightig for the last 1%, which is why you might as well start there, but the difference in wages between China and others is still not enough to get factories to move. That alone, to me, disproves the wage theory.
Wal-Mart is just evil. They promise work to people, then give them too few hours to get benefits. They are fired if they talk to union organizers. The workers in Wal-Mart are exploited. The suppliers are exploited. And the customers are as well (though to a lesser degree). Wal-Mart is capitalism, and it sucks.
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54 fatalities since 2000, around 2%. A 1 in 50 chance is still extreme.
The guy was flaming, claiming that the act of climbing the mountain was a joke. It's not. It's damn hard and extremely dangerous.