fast internet connection via broadband promised to unite the world with a super-fast flow of information, but in South Africa appears that the internet still does not exceed the speed of a humble pigeon.
A company specializing in the South African city of Durban equipped a bird of 11 months with a memory stick, a 4GB memory stick, and began to compete with ADSL service to the largest internet firm in the country, Telkom.
The pigeon, named Winston, took two hours to bring the information over a distance of 1.6 km, while in the same period the ADSL had sent only 4% of the data.
Telkom said it was not responsible for the low-speed internet company.
The idea of \u200b\u200brace came when one of the employees in the enterprise IT Unlimited complained about the speed of data transmission in ADSL.
The employee said he would be faster to take it with a dove.
"We are known for being innovative, so we decided to test this assertion," said Kevin Rolfe, the Unlimited, the newspaper Beeld.
"Cats are not allowed"
Winston took flight from the call center IT Unlimited in the town of Howick Mamori to deliver the laptop to the office that the firm has in Durban.
According to the website of Winston got strict rules to ensure "no unfair advantage.
Dove "was over the moon."
For example, do not let cats or poultry foods artificially enhanced.
The company said that Winston took one hour and eight minutes to fly between the two offices, and information took another hour to be loaded into the system.
Rolfe noted that the ADSL transmission in the same amount of information was only 4% complete at the same time.
Hundreds of South Africans continued to watch the race on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.
"Winston was over the moon," said Rolfe.
"He's happy to be back in the office and now it is having fun with their friends."
South Africa is a country that expects to be benefited from three new fiber optic cables being installed in Africa to improve Internet connections.
click Broadband covers East Africa
The BBC journalist Anne Waithera said from Nairobi, capital Kenya, the country is eager to join the broadband revolution.
The first of three submarine cables that provide high-speed Internet in East Africa was launched in July.
Winston, meanwhile, demonstrates that technology is not everything.
SOURCE: BBC
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