Complaining about slow internet?

I have just read an article recently, link at the bottom, that has to the funniest thing I have heard in a while. Generally here at champlain, most of us complain about internet speeds and other such problems like that. In addition, we all know how fast the internet can really be as the country is slowly converting to fiber optic technology. For those of you who do not know what fiber optics are they are simply cables with very reflective fiber core that transmits light as a signal over a large distance at the near speed of light, these signals represent the data being transferred. Yet, while a large majority of advanced nations are using blistering speed internet, all while Africa's leading ISP is having a bandwidth shortage, reportedly:

"A technology company called Unlimited IT was so frustrated with the speed of its email that it hired an 11-month-old pigeon, Winston, to carry data 80 km from Unlimited IT's offices near Pietermaritzburg to the coastal city of Durban. As Winston flapped off the company sent the data down a Telkom line. Two hours, six minutes and 57 seconds later Winston had arrived and was being rewarded with his favourite biscuits but only four per cent of the four per cent of the data had been transferred."(Fudzilla, Nick Farrell) Read Here

It is just amazing how some places are still stuck at certain technological points that were conquered so long ago.

Farrell, Nick. "Putting data on a pigeon is faster than the Internet." Fudzilla. 11 Sept. 2009. Web. 12 Sept. 2009. .