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Mount Everest Gets 3G Broadband Service

Mount Everest Gets 3G Broadband Service

Nepali telecom company Ncell touted its new setup at the base camp of Mount Everest. This means Everest trekkers can now feed on sweet 3G broadband internet while on the slopes of the world’s tallest mountain. “Today we made the (world’s) highest video call from Mount Everest,” Ncell chief Pasi Koistinen told reporters in Kathmandu, referring to the call made from 5,300 meters (17,388 feet), the area from where climbers begin the actual climb to Mount Everest. The company teamed up with the Swedish firm TeliaSonera to install 3G internet at Everest’s base camp in such a way that the entire mountain…

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