{"id":110046,"date":"2014-09-17T13:10:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T11:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=110046"},"modified":"2014-09-17T13:12:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T11:12:14","slug":"changes-at-iburst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/110046-changes-at-iburst.html","title":{"rendered":"Changes at iBurst"},"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Thami Mtshali has stepped down as iBurst CEO, and has been replaced by an \u201cinternal acting CEO\u201d.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><a title=\"iBurst BusinessLink \u2013 how the Internet should be\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/106557-iburst-businesslink-how-the-internet-should-be.html\"><strong>iBurst BusinessLink \u2013 how the Internet should be<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"WBS, iBurst in play: sources\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/83545-wbs-iburst-in-play-sources.html\"><strong>WBS, iBurst in play: sources<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thami Mtshali steps down as iBurst CEO, and is replaced by an internal acting CEO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":74769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[36,1691,683,42,8975,3572],"class_list":["post-110046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-dimension-data","tag-iburst","tag-mtn","tag-thami-mtshali","tag-wbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110046"}],"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=110046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110050,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110046\/revisions\/110050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}