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Mount Everest
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There was a when the summit of Mount Everest was about as isolated as you could get, but now climbers who reach the roof of the world will be able to pause to check their or perhaps surf the internet.
A Nepalese telecommunications company has a 3G mobile phone network around the mountain and says its coverage will even reach the summit.
Ncell says the installation of base stations along the to the mountain has, for the first time, brought a mobile data service to local people, tourists and climbers.
When Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing reached Everest's summit in 1953, expedition leaders had to send runners to carry to the nearest telegraph office.
Satellite, then mobile voice phones have since helped travel faster, but now a station near Everest base camp in the Khumbu valley has heralded a communications revolution in the Himalayan country, Ncell's parent company, the Swedish-based TeliaSonera, says.
A Nepalese telecommunications company has a 3G mobile phone network around the mountain and says its coverage will even reach the summit.
Ncell says the installation of base stations along the to the mountain has, for the first time, brought a mobile data service to local people, tourists and climbers.
When Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing reached Everest's summit in 1953, expedition leaders had to send runners to carry to the nearest telegraph office.
Satellite, then mobile voice phones have since helped travel faster, but now a station near Everest base camp in the Khumbu valley has heralded a communications revolution in the Himalayan country, Ncell's parent company, the Swedish-based TeliaSonera, says.
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