You can now tweet as you climb Mount Kilimanjaro thanks to new Wi-Fi network

Adventurers ascending Mount Kilimanjaro can now document their climbs in real time on Instagram, Twitter or even TikTok, following the installation of a new

Adventurers ascending Mount Kilimanjaro can now document their climbs in real time on Instagram, Twitter or even TikTok, following the installation of a new high-speed fiber-optic broadband internet network on the mountain’s slopes.

Standing 19,300 feet above sea level in northern Tanzania, Mount Kilimanjaro is Africa’s highest peak and is attempted by more than 30,000 tourists per year, according to local tourist services. 

The new broadband network, set up by state-owned Tanzania Telecommunications Corp., will enable climbers to access reliable Wi-Fi internet up to an altitude of 12,205 feet (3,720 meters).

Tanzania hopes to offer full internet connectivity up to the summit of the mountain by the end of this year.

“All visitors will get connected … [up to] this point of the mountain,” Tanzania’s minister of information and communication, Nape Moses Nnauye, told reporters at a news conference Tuesday at Horombo Huts, an accommodation camp en route to the peak that is 12,205 feet above sea level.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/africa/mount-kilimanjaro-wifi-broadband-fiber-optic-tanzania-rcna43880

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