One of the conversational innovations of the mobile phone era has been that now, when you answer the phone, your friend at the other end can ask: “Where are you?” In a move that will provide ever more outlandish answers to this question, Nepal’s Ncell has just built the world’s highest 3G base station in the Khumbu valley, 5,200m high in the foothills of Mount Everest.
Tim Phillips,
December 14, 2010
