Fancy a Facebook Live at 17,000 ft? It might soon be possible at the Everest base camp
Soon you will have internet access in the Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain. Visitors will be able to tweet, chat, email and share *from the Lukla-Everest base Camp and the Annapurna base Camp with the help of free Wi-Fi offered by Nepal.
Its state-run regulator, Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA), an**unced on Wednesday that it plans to set up free W-Fi zones along the Everest base camp, a hugely popular destination for trekkers and mountaineers.*
The service will operate on the “Okumura Model," which uses low-cost optical fiber cables for high-speed internet. Special cold-and-ice-resistant optical fibers will be used, and if they don't work in the high altitudes, other tech**logies such as micro-wave will be used. * Read more...