{"id":8959,"date":"2010-10-29T10:08:04","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T10:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/use_3g_on_mount_everest.html"},"modified":"2010-10-29T10:08:04","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T10:08:04","slug":"use-3g-on-mount-everest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/use-3g-on-mount-everest.html","title":{"rendered":"Use 3G on Mount Everest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/mount-everest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-none\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2010\/10\/mount-everest-thumb-500x748-8285.jpg\" alt=\"mount-everest.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"748\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the past year we have had one TMC team member take a hike up Mount Everest &ndash; and if you know me &ndash; you know I asked &ndash; do they have 3G there? Well, it turns out they did have satellite powered WiFi at base camp. Thankfully for the people of Nepal and the thousands of tourists &ndash; the situation has improved. Nepali telecom company Ncell, together with its parent company TeliaSonera, just launched Nepal&#8217;s first 3G services at the base camp of the mountain at 17,388 feet.<\/p>\n<p>There is no word if satellite-powered Internet is still available and I for one am happy to know I can be connected even when hiking a few miles in the air.<\/p>\n<p>Call me impatient &ndash; but will they have 4G soon? <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Cool\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/mt-static\/plugins\/TinyMCE\/lib\/jscripts\/tiny_mce\/plugins\/emotions\/img\/smiley-cool.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Cool\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/tmcnet\/columnists\/columnist.aspx?id=100007&amp;nm=Tracey%20E.%20Schelmetic\">Tracey Schelmetic<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/fixed-mobile-convergence.tmcnet.com\/topics\/mobile-communications\/articles\/112269-cell-phone-now-works-atop-mount-everest.htm\">more<\/a> on TMCnet and James Lamont has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/8fbea77a-e2ad-11df-8a58-00144feabdc0.html\">more<\/a> on the Financial Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past year we have had one TMC team member take a hike up Mount Everest &ndash; and if you know me &ndash; you know I asked &ndash; do they have 3G there? Well, it turns out they did have satellite powered WiFi at base camp. Thankfully for the people of Nepal and the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,171,118,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}