Pigeon broadband speed

Did you know that using homing pigeons as your broadband carrier can be faster than using optical fibers?

When you are about to transport several gigabytes of data between two fixed locations at not too large distance, homing pigeon can be an order of magnitude faster. Kevin Rolfe, who runs a financial services company in Durban, South Africa, have reported some more interesting facts about it to Metro. There's also a copy of the story at Programmica.