Internet Zero, Pigeon Won
September 13, 2009
Internet access is so slow in South Africa that Unlimited IT, a local information technology company, decided to prove a point. They ran a test to see if it would be faster to transfer data electronically or by carrier pigeon. The distance is 50 miles from their headquarters in Pietermaritzburg to the city of Durban. It took the pigeon one hour and eight minutes to fly that distance with a 4 gigabyte data card attached to its leg. It took approximately one more hour to download the data for a total of two hours, six minutes, and fifty seven seconds. By comparison, in that same time-frame, only 4% of the electronic data had arrived.
In South Africa Telkom is as slow as you can get
The fastest way to transfer data was the bet
Doesn’t it seem absurd
The winner was a bird?
Now consumers want to switch to fly-speed internet
Tags: carrier pigeon with data card strapped to its leg, Durban, Internet access, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, Unlimited IT
Posted on: September 13, 2009
Filed under: Just For Fun
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1 Comment
Sally
September 13th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
I recommend starting a new high-speed Internet carrier in South Africa. Proposed company name: Pigeon. Tag line: Old-fashioned beats new-fangled every time.
OR
Pigeon: Download your data at the speed of flight.
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