{"id":104363,"date":"2014-06-17T12:57:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T10:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=104363"},"modified":"2014-06-17T14:04:44","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T12:04:44","slug":"mtn-cuts-off-wbs-iburst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/104363-mtn-cuts-off-wbs-iburst.html","title":{"rendered":"MTN cuts off WBS, iBurst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"MTN\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/226943-MTN\">MTN<\/a> South Africa has terminated services to Wireless Business Solutions (WBS)\/<a title=\"iBurst\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/289087-iBurst\">iBurst<\/a> for non-payment on 6 June 2014.<\/p>\n<p>MTN said that while there was no binding agreement between the parties, it continued to transmit and terminate SMS messages originating from WBS\/iBurst on MTN\u2019s network.<\/p>\n<p>However, MTN said that WBS\/iBurst refused to pay MTN for such services, and as a result MTN terminated services to WBS\/iBurst.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMTN has no legal obligation to render such services and in particular, where such services are not being paid for,\u201d said <a title=\"Fusi Mokoena\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/514354-Fusi-Mokoena\">Fusi Mokoena<\/a>, MTN SA general manager of commercial legal.<\/p>\n<p>WBS\/iBurst approached the High Court for an order to force MTN to reinstate the services to WBS\/iBurst.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis 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],\u201d said Mokoena.<\/p>\n<p>WBS\/iBurst was asked for comment, but the company did not respond by the time of publication.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on WBS\/iBurst<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Vodacom cuts off iBurst for unpaid bills\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/103091-vodacom-cuts-off-iburst-for-unpaid-bills.html\"><strong>Vodacom cuts off iBurst for unpaid bills<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN South Africa terminated services to iBurst parent Wireless Business Solutions for non-payment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":95991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[18628,35,683,42,203,3572],"class_list":["post-104363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-fusi-mokoena","tag-headline","tag-iburst","tag-mtn","tag-sms","tag-wbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104363"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104371,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104363\/revisions\/104371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}