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The cable has greatly benefited local people through Internet and 3G services. Banks now can complete transactions that once could take four days in seconds via the Internet.
Internet use has grown fast. There are more than 400 households with online access, compared with only 100 households in 2009. Boasting more than 80 computers, the county's two Internet bars are often packed with young people at night.
Online shopping is becoming fashionable in this once sealed-off place, too.
Sanggyi Dondrup, 22, has become an online-shopping lover since 2010, when he learnt to use the Internet. He had never seen a real computer before then.
"I can find nice-looking clothes online, and they're cheaper than those in our town," he says. It usually takes longer than half a month for the hip goods to be delivered to Medog, but he never minds it.
Sanggyi rarely has chances to go outside Medog, and he says the Internet has helped him learn about the outside world. As a member of the local dance and singing team, he would often search for related videos online to add new elements to his routines.
Now there are about 7,000 mobile phone users in the county.
According to Paima Tsomo, 26, more convenient communication allows people outside Medog to understand it better, too.
"I often use mobile-phone-based social network tools like WeChat to share Medog's unique culture and beautiful scenery with my friends and classmates," explains Paima. "Few of them had been here. They can learn more about my hometown this way."
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