For all you cell phone users out there looking to climb Mount Everest, you can breathe a little easier now.Earlier this week the Nepal Telecom, the largest telecommunications company of Nepal, announced that they intend to build a cell tower that will provide coverage for up to 3000 calls time. one can assume this limit will never be reached.
Nepal Telecom has a 2.8 million customers, about one-tenth of all the people of Nepal and 60% of all cell phone users in the country. the company seven satellite antennas installed around the mountain and will be providing coverage since June this year. Nepali company hopes to provide an alternative for those who have depend on satellite phones to take steady.
Let's hope we never hear of a flood caused by a climber chatty.
Gavin Nachbar is a freelance writing cellphone talker that he himself never plan to climb Mount Everest.
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