CHINESE INTERNET COVERS EARTH’S POLES

BEIJING, OCTOBER 19 /SRNA/ – A Chinese research team announced that its polar icebreaker Jidi had completed pre-operational testing of a local satellite internet system along shipping routes in the Earth`s polar regions.

During the voyage, network connectivity was successfully verified for the first time in the Arctic, Antarctica and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, also known as the Earth’s "third pole".

This has closed the last gap in global communications coverage, the research team announced, reports Xinhua.

The expedition was organised by China`s Ministry of Natural Resources.