{"id":68760,"date":"2014-09-17T14:05:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T12:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=68760"},"modified":"2014-09-17T14:05:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T12:05:31","slug":"iburst-ceo-steps-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/68760\/iburst-ceo-steps-down\/","title":{"rendered":"iBurst CEO steps down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thami Mtshali has stepped down as iBurst CEO, and has been replaced by an \u201cinternal acting CEO\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>While Mtshali is no longer involved in the day-to-day activities of the business, he remains a shareholder and director of the iBurst holding company WBS.<\/p>\n<p>MyBroadband asked iBurst who its new acting CEO is, but the company could not immediately answer that question.<\/p>\n<p>WBS is seen as an attractive acquisition target for telecommunications operators, mainly because of its spectrum licenses and its established backhaul network.<\/p>\n<p>The company has been linked to acquisition talks with Dimension Data and MTN, but according to industry sources these discussions have not lead to any deals to date.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on iBurst<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to MTN cuts off services to iBurst\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/60653\/mtn-cuts-off-services-to-iburst\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">MTN cuts off services to iBurst<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Vodacom cuts off iBurst SMS interconnect\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/59001\/vodacom-cuts-off-iburst-sms-interconnect\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Vodacom cuts off iBurst SMS interconnect<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to iBurst eyes SMEs with uncapped satellite broadband\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/46942\/iburst-eyes-smes-with-uncapped-satellite-broadband\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">iBurst eyes SMEs with uncapped satellite broadband<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to iBurst for sale: sources\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/43659\/iburst-for-sale-sources\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">iBurst for sale: sources<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thami Mtshali has stepped down as iBurst CEO, and has been replaced by an \u201cinternal acting CEO\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":7094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[25,75],"class_list":["post-68760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-iburst"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68760","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=68760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68762,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68760\/revisions\/68762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}