MTN cuts off WBS, iBurst due to non-payment

[jes]

MTN cuts off WBS, iBurst

MTN South Africa terminated services to iBurst parent Wireless Business Solutions for non-payment

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Sinking ship?

 

[Hein_JHB]

This must be corrected like this:-

“This matter was argued before the South Gauteng High Court on Tuesday and Thursday last week [10 and 12 June 2014] and judgement will be delivered at 14h00 today [17 June 2014],” said Mokoena.

 

[RichardG]

RIP! They don't pay ICASA what is due now this.

 

[EasyUp Web Hosting]

I seriously can't believe people still uses iBurst in SA...

 

[MickeyD]

This must be corrected like this:-

“This matter was argued before the South Gauteng High Court on Tuesday and Thursday last week [10 and 12 June 2014] and judgement will be delivered at 14h00 today [17 June 2014],” said Mokoena.

Back To The Future

 

[ginggs]

I seriously can't believe people still uses iBurst in SA...

Where else would you like them to use it?

 

[RichardG]

I seriously can't believe people still uses iBurst in SA...

Same here! If their prepaid offering was reasonable would have been with them but they way overpriced!
If I recall correctly Blu own shares in WBS.

 

[dominic]

Sinking ship?

seems to be listing badly in polar waters...

 

[Paul Hjul]

Sinking ship?

but they have 3 year data rollover ....

[yes the comment is laced with sarcasm]

 

[Arthur]

but they have 3 year data rollover ....

[yes the comment is laced with sarcasm]

Yeah. They just can't get another 30-day debt rollover.

And to think I was a pilot tester.

 

[MickeyD]

Headline is a tad misleading.... this applies to SMSs originating from iBurst/WBS.

 

[deweyzeph]

Headline is a tad misleading.... this applies to SMSs originating from iBurst/WBS.

Who uses IBurst/WBS for sending SMSes though?

 

[jannievanzyl]

Same here! If their prepaid offering was reasonable would have been with them but they way overpriced!
If I recall correctly Blu own shares in WBS.

Not Blue Label. The Levi brothers own shares directly in their own name.

iBurst (the technology) is one of those Betamax stories. When it launched, it was WAY better than 3G and some of the technology only now appears in LTE. But, they did not succeed to get market share and today pretty much only SA still use it.

 

[deweyzeph]

Not Blue Label. The Levi brothers own shares directly in their own name.

iBurst (the technology) is one of those Betamax stories. When it launched, it was WAY better than 3G and some of the technology only now appears in LTE. But, they did not succeed to get market share and today pretty much only SA still use it.

Don't you mean YOU did not succeed in getting market share?

 

[Electron1]

Amazing how iBurst is still going. Someday soon the ship will sink, then we can all say "I told you so".

 

[jannievanzyl]

Don't you mean YOU did not succeed in getting market share?

Actually SA was the only success story with, globally, the biggest network. The rest of the world never took off.

But it had already come to R&D end-of-life at that point in time, i.e. would never go beyond 1Mb/s.

 

[milomak]

ahh i burst. my first foray into broadband.

i will forever hold a soft spot for them.

 

[WaxLyrical]

ibust.

 

[Arthur]

Their antenna technology is amazing.