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Internet Service in Everest Base Camp

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Internet Service in Everest Base Camp
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August 28: Internet service is now available at the Everest Base Camp. Everest Link has started providing internet service at the base camp after setting up the facility with an investment of Rs 20 million. According to Chiring Sherpa, CEO of Everest Link, they were studying the possibility of internet service at the base camp since 2002 but the company started working on it from 2014. The internet service will benefit tourists, hotel entrepreneurs and porters.

The company has been providing internet service in the region through microwave from different places in the Terai. “The internet service will be available in Lukla, Chaurikharka, Khumjung, Khunde, Pangboche, Tengboche, Dingboche,” informed Sherpa. He said that the internet service has been linked from two/three places so that there won’t be any problems in connectivity. The internet service will be faster than in Kathmandu, Sherpa claimed.

The company informed that it started the service for the development of the region and not for profit generation. Out of the 250 hotels in the Everest region, the company has included more than 200 hotels as stakeholders in the company. The stakeholders are entitled to receive 40 percent of the profit from generated from the internet service. The company has provided direct employment to 41 people.

Everest Link charges USD 200 for 100mb data and USD 500 for 200mb data. Meanwhile, the company provides a discount of Rs 100 for Nepali tourists on purchase of any data pack.

According to Chehang Lama, chief technical officer (CTO) of Everest Link, the high rate of transportation charge has increased the cost of internet service in the region.

“It is a Herculean task to make such service available at a remote place like Everest,” said Sherpa.

The company informed that it has been providing internet service after taking ISP license from Nepal Telecommunication. The company said that the internet service will also help in the promotion of tourism.

Sherpa also informed that they would start providing emergency health service in coordination with two hospitals of Kathmandu and a local hospital with the use of internet service.

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