This Mobile Life: Roeding’s World Travels: Nepal
Our dear friend Cyriac Roeding, the former EVP of mobile at CBS (NYSE: CBS), is on a world tour of about 10 countries in seven weeks. After leaving CBS earlier this year, he is on to the next new thing, and for inspiration– and to unwind– and at our request, he is documenting the mobile lifestyle across the countries he is touring. His second
Almost everyone owns a mobile phone in ktm city. There is more than a million people with cell phones here and over a thousand shops selling and repairing them. People are already using the new iphone and pay upto US$1000 to get it. As for mountaineering expeditions, Roeding should realize that even the American mobile networks wont work on top of Mt. Everest. Hence expeditions use the sattelite phones. There is no comparison between Nepal and Bhutan. It is like comparing apples and oranges. Bhutan has a population of 600,000 and Kathmandu is a metropolis with over 3 million people.