But did a company use a pigeon to prove that its office's connection was slow? Verdict:TRUEThis sounds stranger than fiction, but in 2009, an IT services company in South Africa decided to do so. The company, Unlimited IT, was frustrated with the super-slow Internet speed provided by the country's internet service provider Telkom. Unlimited IT wanted to find out whether it was faster to send data from one branch office to another using the country's Internet service, or with using a homing pigeon. Perhaps the next time you encounter slow Internet in the office, you could say that 'a pigeon can send the email to the client faster'.
