Fwd: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband'

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Date: 2009/9/14
Subject: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband'
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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.



Full Story



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8248056.stm







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