Movistar has reconnected all the telephone and ADSL internet lines affected by the fire at a control centre in Huelin, Málaga, eleven days ago. In addition to installing a new section of the centre, much wiring had to be renewed, tested and coupled, a process which normally takes up to six months. Amazing what can be done if you set …
Back to the carrier pigeon?
The idea started when a worker at Unlimited IT in Durban, South Africa, complained about the speed of data transmission on ADSL broadband, commenting that it would be faster by carrier pigeon. Enter Winston, an eleven month old pigeon. Armed with a 4 gigabyte memory stick, Winston took on South Africa’s biggest web firm, Telkom. The race had strict rules, …