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At least in South Africa.

Frustrated with Telkom, South Africa’s biggest ISP, the cheeky staff at a South African IT company devised a race to see what would be faster: e-mailing a large file from their Pietermaritzburg offices to the city of Durban, 77 km away, or strapping a data stick to a pigeon’s leg and tossing it in the right direction.

The best part, from Reuters:

Including downloading, the transfer took two hours, six minutes and 57 seconds — the time it took for only four percent of the data to be transferred using a Telkom line.

So not only was the pigeon faster — it was 25 times faster. And assuming that the IT company was using

So if you live in South Africa and want to sign up for Telkom’s fastest DSL plan, you should know that your high-speed communications will run you paying 413 rand per month, or about $55 — not including pigeon feed.

Image via Wikipedia.
Story via Asher Vijay.

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