Mahabir Pun

2014 Internet Hall of Fame Interviews: Mahabir Pun

in Internet Hall of Fame 2014

I started building a wireless network in my country Nepal in early 2000, when the wireless technology was just coming. Nobody then believed that it was possible to build a wireless network in the remote Himalayan region, and to bring Internet to the remote villages where there are no roads, no telecommunication services.

Mahabir Pun’s Internet Hall of Fame 2014 Induction Speech

in Internet Hall of Fame 2014

I did not invent an important thing. I am not an innovator. The only thing I did is you know, in early 2000, when WiFi was just coming I used a simple indoor router to make a long-range wireless link, a forty-kilometer link, to bring Internet in my home village.