Pigeon Beats Internet

I don't really know what to make of this.

It seems that the Internet in South Africa is so slow that a carrier pigeon with a flash drive strapped to its back can move data from place to place more quickly.

I'm a little worried about what this might mean for the World Cup (to be held in South Africa) next summer. Rather than getting real-time scoring updates over the Internet, are we all going to have to wait for the nation's fleet of pigeons to deliver the results?