All of the usual caveats from information theory apply though. In particular, the noisiness of the channel plays a huge part in Shannons equation for informatio

All of the usual caveats from information theory apply though. In particular, the noisiness of the channel plays a huge part in Shannons equation for information capacity. In this case in particular, if you receive no particles you know that the event either did not happen _or_ it did happen and you failed to detect the particle. If you do receive a particle you know that either the event happened at least once _or_ it did not happen and you have a false positive from your detector _or_ there was a particle but it was introduced by quantum noise. To make sure what actually happened you would need more signal, more particles per transmitted bit. However, it is entirely possible that this reduction in effective bit rate will slow down actual bit rates back down to "normal" subluminal speeds.