Speed Internet connectivity and the largest economy in Africa are low because of lack of bandwidth, which is also expensive.
A local news agency SAPA reported that a pigeon 11 months old, Winston, took one hour and eight minutes to fly 80 kilometers from the offices of IT Unlimited, near Pietermaritzburg, to the coastal city of Durban with a memory card tied in one of the legs.
Including download the data, it took two hours, six minutes and 57 seconds for only four percent of the same data to be transferred with a line of Telkom.
The SAPA reported that the IT Unlimited decided to do the "test" after the officials frustrated with the slow Internet connection.
The company has 11 service centers to customers in the country and usually needs to transfer data to its other units.
The speed Internet in the region must improve so that a new submarine cable fiber optics of 17 thousand kilometers long, linking the southern and eastern Africa to other networks, to become operational before the opening World Cup in South Africa Africa, in 2010.