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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 erpbridge · · Score: 4, Informative

      Having thought about it, guessing he was talking about 5,200 meters with the thinking that in certain places in the world, they use a comma rather than a decimal point to represent the division between partial units. In that case, 5,200 metres = 5.200 meters = 17.0604 feet = 17,0604 feet in that particular case.

      But Everest Base camp (either south or north, both on a fairly broad area) are most certainly not a handful of meters above sea level.

  2. Be careful by lesincompetent · · Score: 5, Informative

    Video streaming? Only if you get proper authorization first!

  3. Re:meters? by MicktheMech · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Everybody living in the 21st century should.

  4. Re:meters? by chilvence · · Score: 4, Informative

    Feet are deprecated. You are welcome to make your own conversion :)

  5. Re:Mount Everest is a fucking joke by Dzimas · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.