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."

Be careful

[lesincompetent]

Video streaming? Only if you get proper authorization [bbc.co.uk] first!

Re:Conversion to foot

[erpbridge]

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.

Re:meters?

[chilvence]

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

Re:Mount Everest is a fucking joke

[Dzimas]

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.

Re:WTF..

[arth1]

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.