10 September 2009
Broadband promised to unite the world with super-fast data delivery - but in South Africa it seems the web is still no faster than a humble pigeon.
A Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory stick against the ADSL service from the country's biggest web firm, Telkom.
Winston the pigeon took two hours to carry the data 60 miles - in the same time the ADSL had sent 4% of the data.
Telkom said it was not responsible for the firm's slow internet speeds.
The idea for the race came when a member of staff at Unlimited IT complained about the speed of data transmission on ADSL.
He said it would be faster by carrier pigeon.
"We renown ourselves on being innovative, so we decided to test that statement," Unlimited's Kevin Rolfe told the Beeld newspaper.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8248056.stm
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I had read about this, it is very funny.
Just as well they didn't run that test in Australia, I have heard that broadband is faster in South Africa than Australia
Just as well they didn't run that test in Australia, I have heard that broadband is faster in South Africa than Australia
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