Yes, you saw right - in South Africa it is faster to transfer digital data with the help of a carrier pigeon than broadband internet!
It took Winston the pigeon, carrying the 4GB data stick, one hour and eight minutes to fly between the offices that are 60 miles apart, and the data took another hour to upload on to their system. And in the same time the ADSL had sent 4% of the data.
Please read the full story here - SA pigeon 'faster than broadband'.