{"id":144499,"date":"2015-11-02T14:53:05","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T12:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=144499"},"modified":"2015-11-02T14:54:53","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T12:54:53","slug":"iburst-spectrum-transfer-to-multisource-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/144499-iburst-spectrum-transfer-to-multisource-conditions.html","title":{"rendered":"iBurst spectrum transfer to Multisource conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has approved the transfer of spectrum licences from Wireless Business Solutions (WBS) &#8211; which\u00a0operates iBurst &#8211; to Multisource.<\/p>\n<p>Icasa said it received the application on 8 June 2015, which it has now approved as it met the applicable regulatory requirements.<\/p>\n<p>It highlighted the following terms of the transaction:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Multisource will acquire the entire share capital of WBS Holdings.<\/li>\n<li>WBS will remain a wholly owned subsidiary of Wireless Business Solutions Holdings.<\/li>\n<li>WBS will remain the licence holder of all licences Icasa has issued to it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThe Authority followed a public process in consideration of the application which allowed interested parties to comment on the transaction, and the applicants an opportunity to respond,\u201d said Icasa.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More on the Multisource-WBS deal<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/144267-south-africa-may-get-a-new-lte-operator.html\"><strong>South Africa may get a new LTE operator<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/144257-iburst-sale-to-multisource-gets-green-light.html\"><strong>iBurst sale to Multisource gets green light<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa has revealed the conditions under which Multisource will receive iBurst&#8217;s frequency spectrum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":143190,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18668,13],"tags":[36,683,18090,7521,19242],"class_list":["post-144499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","category-wireless","tag-active","tag-iburst","tag-independent-communications-authority-of-south-africa-icasa","tag-multisource","tag-wireless-business-solutions-wbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144499"}],"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=144499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144501,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144499\/revisions\/144501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}