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According to BBC reports, an exasperated employee for Durban's Unlimited IT spurred the pigeon to action after the man frustratingly mentioned that data transmission "would be faster by carrier pigeon" than with Internet provider Telkom's DSL service. The Unlimited team drafted Winston the pigeon to test the statement, so they dispatched him, with a 4 GB memory stick, on a 60-mile race against technology.
Winston arrived at his destination in 1:08 hours (60 mph?!), and the waiting Unlimited IT pit crew took another hour to upload the data on the memory stick. During that two-hour period, a paltry 4-percent of the same amount of data had been transferred through DSL.
Telkom would not accept fault for the dismally slow speeds, but something should be done to address the problem before next summer, when South Africa will host the World Cup. If not, local police won't just have to deal with rowdy soccer hooligans, they'll have to quell roving mobs of frustrated, rioting sports reporters, too. [From: BBC and Engadget]
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Comments
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Subscribe to commentsIsk YouyousovaSep 12th 2009 2:46PM
..... THIS IS NOT AT ALL SURPRISING. WE AOL USERS HAVE LEARNED TO LIVE WITH...waiting, waiting and waiting for anything you might "click" to finally show up. We have six Aol users in our household, so waiting is usually the norm.
mezlSep 12th 2009 3:56PM
maybe they should just use robot pigeons to deliver the information. they can program them to fly at a hundred miles per minute....
Ms. Tonya C. McDaySep 17th 2009 11:32AM
The carrier pigeon has always been a very reliable way to send and receive messages. I have always thought that in the future society will end up going back to the original ways in which we have communicated. This story all though remarkable, is not really surprising. Way To Go Pigeons!!!!!