Two months ago, a South African company decided to call attention to the dismal 1-Mbps ADSL speeds from government-owned incumbent telco Telkom SA via a publicity stunt based on an old IETF April Fool's Day joke called IP over Avian Carriers (IPoAC). In essence, the company hired a carrier pigeon to carry a 4-GB micro-SD card from a branch office in Howick to its head office 70 km away, while the same data was uploaded to the same location via ADSL.
The pigeon won handsomely.
http://www.telecomasia.net/content/you-have-right-broadband?page=0%2C1
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thats not far fetched. for about 2 months now i am getting 15% of my subscribed speed . I have a youtele connection. I have screenshots of speedtest results from youtele server for everyday since 5th jan 2010. Youtele is fraud. acc No. 530279
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