iBurst has informed customers that it will start decommissioning its network from the beginning of February.<\/p>\n
“From the beginning of February, iBurst will begin decommissioning their wireless Internet network,” said the company.<\/p>\n
“In order to ensure your uninterrupted Internet connectivity, we are offering a superior LTE alternative with significantly faster speeds, better coverage, and enhanced reliability.”<\/p>\n
iBurst previously stated that the “migration specials” include\u00a0a 100GB per month LTE-A contract priced at R599<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n The LTE-Advanced network replacing the existing iBurst network is part of a move by Multisource – which acquired iBurst parent WBS in 2015 – to create a new LTE-A national network<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile our nationwide iBurst network has been providing South Africans with affordable bandwidth and connectivity for well over a decade, it has become increasingly outdated in terms of comparable connectivity services now available on the market,\u201d said iBurst in December<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cAs the new LTE-A network is rolled out, your managed migration will be as disruption-free as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n The new LTE-A network from WBS will consist of its own towers and infrastructure, in combination with a lease agreement with Vodacom to share its network infrastructure.<\/p>\n The planned network will consist of 10,000 towers by 2020, said WBS.<\/p>\n iBurst has informed customers that it will start decommissioning its network from the beginning of February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":131266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[35,683,27659,3572],"class_list":["post-196024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-headline","tag-iburst","tag-lte-a","tag-wbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196024"}],"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=196024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196026,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196024\/revisions\/196026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0How a 3-year-old subscribed to a R10-per-day adult WASP service<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"