{"id":2880,"date":"2017-02-09T12:51:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T12:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/?p=2880"},"modified":"2017-02-09T12:57:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T12:57:32","slug":"free-wifi-zones-set-everest-base-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2017\/02\/09\/free-wifi-zones-set-everest-base-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Free wifi zones to be set up at Everest base camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In order to promote tourism and provide easy flow of information during disasters, the Nepal government on Wednesday said free wifi zones would be set up on the Lukla-Everest Base Camp and the Annapurna Base Camp.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n&#8220;In the initial phase we will set up free wifi zones along the Lukla-EBC area and Annapurna trail,&#8221; Nepal Telecommunication Authority (NTA) Chairman Digambar Jha said in a programme here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will expand this service in other areas too,&#8221; the Kathmandu Post quoted Jha as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Jha said the service will operate on the Okamura Model. The model suggests use of low-cost optical cable for high-speed internet.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative comes after Nepal&#8217;s Tourism industry was hit due to several avalanches triggered by earthquakes. Climbers at the Mount Everest base camp and others usually get trapped on the slopes.<\/p>\n<p>In many incidents, including the avalanche that hit the Everest base camp post the 2015 Nepal earthquake, rescue teams reached the trapped people late, leading to deaths.\u2014IANS<\/p>\n<p>Image:\u00a0Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to promote tourism and provide easy flow of information during disasters, the Nepal government on Wednesday said free wifi zones would be set up on the Lukla-Everest Base Camp and the Annapurna Base Camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[93],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2882,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions\/2882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}