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Pigeon beats broadband carrier’s speed by a massive margin
What would happen when you would pit a very agile and accurate pigeon against a broadband provider? Believe it or not, the pigeon would most likely come up on top. Like it was in case of this South African firm. Disgruntled by the performance of their broadband connection from Telkom, which happens to be the…
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Superfast Supercars to Promote Super-Speedy Virgin Broadband
Ever fancied zipping around England’s capital in a sports car? Well, here’s your chance. Virgin Media is celebrating the announcement of its 100Mb/s broadband with a fleet of supercar taxis. Want to flip round London in a Ferrari? How about popping down to Big Ben in a Porsche? Or mooching over to Marble Arch in…
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Korea has the fastest internet in the world at 34.14M bps, US lags behind ranking 27th
Apparently the fastest Internet service in the world is found in South Korea. According to the creator of Speedtest, Ookla, the country is capable of downstream speeds of 34.14M bps. The lowest in this spectrum of 152 ranked countries is the Sudan where you’ll get speeds up to just 340K bps. When it comes to…
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Live in Japan if you love Torrents
Along with Pachinko, Shinkansens and the gadgets from Akihabara you can also enjoy the fastest and cheapest Internet in the world. Except for the Internet, the words Japan and Internet dont go together. In the land of rising sun the average speed is 60 mbps and the average cost per MB is 27 cents. Back…
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1 MB broadband is a legal right in Finland
I so wish I lived in Finland! It’s surely hard to believe that a country could make a certain threshold bandwidth as a legal right for all its citizens. And this isn’t any small nation. With a population of 5 million, it surely takes a lot of ‘balls’ for the government to take such a…
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Spaceloon may soon be the answer to broadband problems in Africa
A few small and simple things harbor some fantastic ideas. Let’s take the case of the Spaceloon for instance. It’s an ingenious thought by two Nigerian entrepreneurs, Timothy Anyasi and Collins Nwani who have come up with the idea of using “near space technology” by a American company Space Data, throughout Africa. The duo is…
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Broadband user gets $60,000 bill for downloading Prison Break episode and few songs
Even before we can recover from the fact that iPhone plans to give an expensive deal while abroad, a new story has taken birth regarding monstrous roaming broadband bills. Apparently a mobile broadband user has received a £31,000 ($60,000) bill for downloading music and a single episode of popular TV show Prison Break. While holidaying…
