Description: It took a pigeon to bring the country’s attention to the need for an upgrade of the Internet speed, and Winston the pigeon did his job admirably. If not for this bird, Telkom may not have worked feverishly to improve its Internet services, and the clamour from Internet users and supporters would not have been as loud.
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In 2009, an unusual race took place to test the speed of the Internet in South Africa. It was the pigeon called Winston versus the speed of the Internet signal provided by Telkom.
Telkom , as many are aware, is the largest communications provider in South Africa. They offer landline to mobile to Internet services and have been described by many as controlling the monopoly on communication services, especially the land –based phones best online casino south africa .
Winston is a homing pigeon not quite a year old (in 2009). He was literally a celebrity because of his remarkable achievement of “beating Goliath” against the big old giant, Telkom. It all began when Unlimited IT, a company in Durban, decided to stage a race in delivering data from Howick to Durban. Winston was to carry the 4GB memory stick while a staff member would begin transmitting the same data using the ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) of Telkom. In figurative terms, it was the Kruger Nationa