Bird DIY – How To Transport Data With Homing Pigeons!

Here’s an amusing story about Unlimited Group, a financial company in South Africa, that uses a “racing” homing pigeon to transfer gigabytes of data between their 2 remote offices in South Africa . Since Telecom in South Africa charges about $10/gigabyte of internet data transfer, Unlimited Group has enlisted one of the “finest” homing pigeons Winston to deliver their data. The Unlimited has hired a high speed consultant, Winston, a top class racing pigeon from Gillits (just outside of Hil