{"id":80363,"date":"2015-02-20T17:32:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T15:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=80363"},"modified":"2015-02-20T17:34:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T15:34:26","slug":"multisource-closes-in-on-iburst-buy-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/80363\/multisource-closes-in-on-iburst-buy-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Multisource closes in on iBurst buy: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Convergence technology company Multisource has reportedly succeeded in its bid\u00a0to acquire iBurst parent company, Wireless Business Solutions (WBS), according to TechCentral, citing a source.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/110076-iburst-deal-on-the-table.html\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/110076-iburst-deal-on-the-table.html\">In September, MyBroadband reported<\/a> that iBurst was in discussions with three different players regarding a possible acquisition deal, and was considering one offer made at the time.<\/p>\n<p>This was confrimed by WBS director, David Hilewitz, at the time.<\/p>\n<p>It was reported in October 2014 that Multisource was one of the companies who had put in a bid, pending a financial and operational due diligence.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Multisource is no stranger to iBurst. In October 2013, Multisource acquired Neology, which has very close ties to iBurst.<\/p>\n<p>iBurst assets include spectrum in the 1,800MHz band, along with an established wireless network with high sites and an extensive microwave backhaul network.<\/p>\n<p>Multisource, meanwhile, focuses on the designing, building, operating, and federating of \u201cnext wave\u201d networks.<\/p>\n<p>These networks combine radio, wireless, voice, video, and IP technologies into a single, integrated communication network, the group notes.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the deal is pending regulatory approval.<\/p>\n<p>Multisource could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on WBS<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"iBurst CEO steps down\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/68760\/iburst-ceo-steps-down\/\"><strong>iBurst CEO steps down<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"MTN cuts off services to iBurst\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/60653\/mtn-cuts-off-services-to-iburst\/\"><strong>MTN cuts off services to iBurst<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"iBurst for sale: sources\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/43659\/iburst-for-sale-sources\/\"><strong>iBurst for sale: sources<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Convergence technology company Multisource has reportedly succeeded in its bid to acquire iBurst parent company, Wireless Business Solutions (WBS), according to report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":43660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[25,75,9521,1533],"class_list":["post-80363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-iburst","tag-multisource","tag-wbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80363","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=80363"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80385,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80363\/revisions\/80385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}