“Intel has rigged up a Wi-Fi hotspot just 80km from the North Pole,”this article says.”The hotspot was set up by two Intel employees who recently went on an expedition to ninety degrees north.The adventurous staffers installed an 802.11b/g access point at the main camp site,and a wireless LAN of three IBM T41 and T42 Centrino notebooks.The access point is near the Barneo ice camp,located on the 89th northern parallel”.
Frozen polar waste gets Wi-Fi hotspot