Shipping data is common, both to save money and for greater speed.

AWS has their import/export tool that does just this: http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/

There's also the story of the carrier pigeon which was faster than broadband in South Africa http://www.physorg.com/news171883994.html

Fill a 737 with bluray, fly it from NY to LA, and you'll reach 37,000 Gbit/s.

It's called Sneakernet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet