Acarrier pigeon won a race with a rural broadband connection to see which could send a video between two counties, the fastest. Rory, the pigeon carried the five-minute video, loaded onto a computer memory card from Beverley in East Yorkshire to Wrangle in Lincolnshire.
At the same time as Rory took off, a computer in Beverley started uploading the same video onto the Internet. The pigeon took about 80 minutes to make the journey, while the computer was still uploading the video.
It was reported that the campaigners organised the race to highlight rural broadband problems. One of the campaigners, Michelle Brumfield said, “The issue is so widespread that some areas are being called ‘notspots’ — the opposite of hotspots.”
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