Located at the top of Mount Everest, at an altitude of 8,848 meters above sea level, hot spots allow mountaineers enjoy complete access to the internet after their long journey.
"This is a milestone for mobile communications," said Lars Nyberg, TeliaSonera's Chief Executive Officer, as quoted by DailyTech, November 1, 2010. "Now for the first affordable high-speed Internet-based 3G is present in the highest mountain in the world," he said.
For information, prior to this, the existing telecommunications services in the Mount Everest is an expensive satellite-based telecommunications. One of the service provider is China Mobile, which has a satellite based base stations at an altitude of 6500 meters.
Services from Ncell will likely be useful for the climber in case of accident. Ncell mention, they have put eight base stations by at an altitude of 5200 meters, near the village of Gorakshep. Four of the eight base stations are using solar power.
"We managed to make a video call from Mount Everest base camp," said Pasi Koistinen, Chief Officer Ncell Nepal, on the same occasion. "Service coverage will reach up to the top of Mount Everest," Koistinen claims.
In addition to the climber, the telecommunications service is also very valuable to local residents. As is known, despite having the highest mountain peak at the center of attention all over the world, Nepal amongst the poorest countries.
Currently, the telecommunications infrastructure covers only a third of the country with a population of 28 million people who live mostly mediocre.
For that, TeliaSonera plans to invest U.S. $ 100 million with a target will provide telecommunications coverage to 90 percent in the country.
For TeliaSonera, the telecommunications infrastructure to bring success at the highest place of the complete success of infrastructure put in place their lowest. Some time ago, these operators have to bring 3G services in a number of mines in Europe, which were located at 1,400 meters below sea level