Antarctica, mountain top, volcano: 5 places where you suddenly have internet

While you are swearing at your mobile operator for the fact that the apartment barely catches 3G, somewhere on top of an 8-kilometer mountain you can watch YouTube with maximum resolution, reports high load.

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Specialists of the telecom operator GigaTrans have compiled a rating of the most interesting places in the world where there is a connection to the World Wide Web.

Among the glaciers of Antarctica

The icy desert of Antarctica is one of the most deserted places on Earth. It seems to be the last place where you can find an internet connection.

However, this is reality: in 2021, the Ukrainian research station “Akademik Vernadsky” was equipped with the Internet. Of course, they didn’t lay optical fiber - a huge satellite dish of the American company General Dynamics with a diameter of 2,4 meters was installed here. As a result, polar explorers (finally) received stable access to unlimited Internet.

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The cost of such a set of IT equipment is more than $30. Previously, polar explorers could send messages only once a week. The total amount of traffic per month was 30 GB.

At the top 8848 meters

Even in the Himalayas there is an Internet connection. The access point on Mount Everest was installed by the company of the same name - Everest Link. It provides over 200 other Wi-Fi hotspots in this mountainous region.

At this altitude, there is no electricity, so the Wi-Fi equipment is powered by solar panels. The speed is 200 Mb/s.

Ask why is this necessary? Communication on mountain peaks is important, because sometimes it can save a life. Until 2017, the only means of communication on Everest was letters delivered from time to time by helicopter.

Under tons of water

Connecting to the internet underwater is a real challenge with an asterisk. Today, underwater communications are provided by radio, acoustic and visible light signals. Radio can transmit data over short distances, while acoustic signals support long distances, but at a limited data rate.

In a new study from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, scientists have created an underwater wireless system called Aqua-Fi. Its feature is that it is able to support the transmission of multimedia messages using LEDs or lasers.

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The system uses green LEDs or a 520nm laser to transmit data from a small computer to a light detector connected to another computer. The former converts photos and videos into bits (0 or 1) which are then converted into beams of light that turn on and off at a very high speed. The light detector takes this change and turns it into bits, which the computer turns into raw material.

But you can’t hold Zoom conferences with such Internet yet, because the maximum data transfer rate is 2,11 Mb per second.

Among the craters of the moon

For many years, scientists from all over the world have been exploring the possibility of connecting to the Internet on the Moon. The US space agency is working on the development of the LunaNet project - building an Internet network for the moon. NASA plans to build a wide range of IT infrastructures on and around the Earth's satellite: a new space station and a lunar web service that will keep all users connected.

However, there are difficulties. Transferring data between the Earth and the Moon is not easy, especially from the south pole of the satellite and its far side, which is not directly facing the Earth.

Transportation creates another obstacle. Lunar trips are not very frequent, to put it mildly: in the last 50 years, only two missions have taken place. Therefore, the delivery of Internet equipment can take quite a long time. Several upcoming launches, including the crewed Artemis II mission scheduled for 2024, will include communications technology demonstrations on the Moon.

To improve the service, NASA plans to launch connecting lunar satellites and then return to the communications infrastructure on Earth. The relay spacecraft will be useful for hard-to-reach areas of the Moon. NASA also plans to deploy a series of stations on the surface of a celestial body that will operate as cell towers. Theoretically, communication on the Moon will work not so much as a telephone line, but more like an Internet network.

Meanwhile, the European Space Agency is working on a parallel project called Moonlight, which aims to attract companies to build a lunar telecommunications infrastructure.

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On the highest volcano in the world

Everest is the highest mountain in the world and Kilimanjaro is the highest volcano. Tanzanian authorities have installed high-speed Internet on top of Africa's highest mountain peak, that is, at an altitude of more than 5 meters.

The broadband access service was created by the Tanzania Telecommunications Corporation and launched at the end of 2022. Now climbers and tourists who will conquer the mountain will be able to upload photos and videos, as well as broadcast in real time directly from the top of Kilimanjaro.

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