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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!
Everybody living in the 21st century should.
Feet are deprecated. You are welcome to make your own conversion :)
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.
The US is the only country with CDMA phones. ROW uses sim based GSM phones.
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Because the mountain is famous.
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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.
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!?
The topography is favorable, the max user load is easily estimated, and the telco gets good PR out of it.
I doubt your neighborhood can claim 2/3 of those things.
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Why? Many people prefer metres! :D
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).
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.
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
http://what-if.xkcd.com/48/