{"id":31015,"date":"2013-02-01T12:55:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T10:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=31015"},"modified":"2013-02-04T11:12:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T09:12:11","slug":"icasa-councillor-targetted-in-hit-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/31015\/icasa-councillor-targetted-in-hit-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Icasa councillor targeted in hit – report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Icasa councillor, Joseph Lebooa, claims he was hijacked, beaten up and dumped in an attempt to “persuade” him to drop an attempt to close down Wireless Business Soultions (WBS) in an ongoing investigation, according to a Mail & Guardian report.<\/p>\n

WBS, which, along with iBurst, is a subsidiary of WBS Holdings, denied any link to the incident.<\/p>\n

According to the Mail & Guardian, Lebooa said he issued a letter of demand last week requiring WBS to pay outstanding fees for several radio links or face being shut down.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Lebooa said he was followed from a meeting in Midrand and hijacked by a group of at least six men.<\/p>\n

They indicated there was a problem with the rear of his vehicle and persuaded him to stop. Once Lebooa was out of his car, they beat him up and forced him back into his 16-seater vehicle.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey hit me until the blood was coming out of my mouth,\u201d Lebooa told the newspaper.<\/p>\n

According to the report, Lebooa was actively investigating WBS, where he had discovered that the company had been operating more than 1,000 illegal links, which were never licensed by Icasa and no application or licence fees were paid for the use of the spectrum.<\/p>\n

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Joseph Lebooa (Image: Mail & Guardian)<\/p><\/div>\n

Source: Mail & Guardian<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

More WBS and iBurst articles on MyBroadband<\/h3>\n

\u2018Illegal\u2019 spectrum usage battle<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Broadlink\/iBurst denies illegal spectrum usage<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

WBS LTE spectrum negotiations ongoing<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Icasa councillor has reportedly been hijacked, beaten and had his life threatened in an alleged bid to get him to drop the WBS-iBurst investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":7238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[26,36,5110,4881],"class_list":["post-31015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-headline","tag-icasa","tag-joseph-lebooa","tag-mail-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31015"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31100,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31015\/revisions\/31100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}