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First Posted: 09-10-09 11:21 AM   |   Updated: 09-10-09 11:33 AM

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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.

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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 ...
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 ...
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- OneTop I'm a Fan of OneTop 93 fans permalink
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Thank goodness they didn't have com.ca.st ... the bird could have stopped off for a few pints and still beat em!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:35 PM on 09/10/2009
- Sing Out and Slap Iron I'm a Fan of Sing Out and Slap Iron 42 fans permalink
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That's gonna be a nightmare for the folks covering the World Cup next year.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:18 PM on 09/10/2009
- FrTown I'm a Fan of FrTown 14 fans permalink
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Actually, most foreign news services, hotels, etc. rely on satellite signals to connect to the internet. And those mobile dishes can be set up in less than a week.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:57 AM on 09/18/2009
- Colloquielle I'm a Fan of Colloquielle 5 fans permalink
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Bahah! If they're embarrassing an ISP like that, imagine how Royal Mail would stack up?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:14 PM on 09/10/2009
- digitalprophet I'm a Fan of digitalprophet 14 fans permalink
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I am gonna go ahead and say this is pretty awesome.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:02 PM on 09/10/2009
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