{"id":548181,"date":"2006-03-09T06:08:09","date_gmt":"2006-03-09T06:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548181-iburst-forum-kicks-off.html"},"modified":"2006-03-09T06:08:09","modified_gmt":"2006-03-09T06:08:09","slug":"iburst-forum-kicks-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548181-iburst-forum-kicks-off.html","title":{"rendered":"iBurst Forum Kicks Off"},"content":{"rendered":"

This conference, which is hosted by WBS (Wireless Business Solutions), is designed for various interested parties to meet and discuss the potential of iBurst technology.<\/font> <\/p>\n

Dr. Martin Cooper, chairman of Arraycom and the man who laid the groundwork for iBurst, will be one of the keynote speakers.<\/font> <\/p>\n

Last night he outlined some of the issues that will be discussed today and top of his list is the WiMAX versus iBurst debate.<\/font> <\/p>\n

According to Cooper iBurst technology is safe for at least another 5 years as it will take time before WiMAX is fully operational.<\/font> <\/p>\n

\u201cReal WiMAX is not going to be around for at least 2 years, possibly 3 or 4,\u201d stated Cooper.<\/font> <\/p>\n

He added that whilst the two technologies most definitely do compete he sees more than enough space in the market for different technologies that offer different strengths. <\/font><\/p>\n

\u201cCompetition is wonderful,\u201d said Cooper adding that \u201cmonopoly carriers are trying to hold things back and force us [consumers] to fit into a box to make revenue from it.\u201d <\/font><\/p>\n

Paris Mashile, the chairman from ICASA, also attended the opening night and added his support to iBurst\u2019s initiatives.<\/font> <\/p>\n

\u201cYou have set the standards especially because you are historically disadvantaged and we as the Regulator need to advantage you,\u201d said Mashile.<\/font> <\/p>\n

Mashile added that it was ICASA\u2019s role to optimize the needs of all stakeholders and that he was gratified by the reciprocity that business provided in terms of social development.<\/font> <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen there is increased competition there is a chance of lowering prices which can encourage economic growth,\u201d said Mashile.<\/font> <\/p>\n

Discuss this article<\/font><\/a> <\/p>\n

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Delegates from all over the world converged at the Hilton Hotel last night for the opening ceremony of the iBurst Forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548181"}],"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=548181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}