Twitter Goes Kilimanjaro As Climbers Can Now tweet from Up There – The Roof of Africa

Tanzania has installed high-speed Internet services on the slopes of Kilimanjaro, allowing climbers with a smartphone to tweet, Instagram or WhatsApp their ascent up Africa’s highest mountain.

State-owned Tanzania Telecommunications Corporation set up the broadband network on August 16 at an altitude of 3 720 meters, with Information Minister Nape Nnauye calling the event “historic”. 

“Previously, it was a bit dangerous for visitors and porters, who had to operate without Internet,” said Nnauye at the launch of the service.

“All visitors will get connected… [up to] this point of the mountain,” he said at the Horombo Huts, one of the camps on route to the peak.