So you think that you have slow Broadband speeds? A South African Company was so frustrated that the challenged their telcom that a carrier pigeon could do better. The pigeon took just over an hour to reach its destination and some 40 mins or so to upload the data from the USB it was carrying. In the same time only 4% of the data had been uploaded by the telcom company. Don’t know about you but the prospect of our information winging towards us by pigeon has a certain symmetry about it in these days of everyone wanting us to hgo back in time to save energy.
See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8248056.stm for full article.