I mentioned last month how even in places like Johannesburg, the capital of South Africa, the broadband is too slow to stream video. There's one telecom company, and they're not in a hurry to improve service.
Someone there postulated that a pigeon would be a faster way to transmit data. So tomorrow they're going to try to prove it. They're strapping a 4GB memory card to a pigeon and racing it against broadband. http://www.facebook.com/Winston.the.Pigeon http://pigeonrace2009.co.za/ Rupert http://twittervlog.tv They're strapping a 4GB memory card to a pigeon and sending it across the city to prove that On 13-Aug-09, at 8:54 PM, Rupert Howe wrote: > > We don't hear much about accessibility here any more, but we should. > There are a *lot* of people without broadband. And even some of those > with 'broadband' don't have fast enough connections to watch streaming > video properly. I know someone in South Africa - in Johannesburg, the > capital - who says that it's impossible to stream YouTube there. You > have to wait ages to let them buffer - even using the internet > connection in his architectural company's offices in downtown > Jo'burg. If that's true for a relatively rich country like South > Africa, imagine the situation in the rest of the world. > > Rupert > http://twittervlog.tv > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
