What better way to celebrate the sublimity of summiting Everest than by calling your mom or pausing to update your Facebook status? Well, now it may be possible thanks to a 3G mobile network base installed at the bottom of the world's highest peak, according to CNN. "The speed of the 3G services will be up to 3.6 MB per second," said a representative from Ncell, the Nepalese mobile phone operator that installed the 3G base at 17,000 feet, near the village of Gorakshep. "But we could have it up to 7.2 MB if there is demand." And no doubt there will be: 30,000 tourists visit the Himalayas every year. Fifty people can use the network at a time, and Ncell says calls from the top of Everest are theoretically possible. Ncell's Swedish parent company, Teliasonera, has a thing for elevational extremes—it also operates the lowest 3G base station in the world, 4,595 feet below sea level in a European mine.
Read original story in CNN | Friday, Oct. 29, 2010
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