{"id":550608,"date":"2006-10-23T12:21:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T12:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/550608-iburst-considers-wimax-options.html"},"modified":"2006-10-23T12:21:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-23T12:21:00","slug":"iburst-considers-wimax-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/550608-iburst-considers-wimax-options.html","title":{"rendered":"iBurst considers WiMax options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Thami Mtshali, iBurst CEO, said that they have adequate iBurst spectrum, but that the advantages of WiMax over the iBurst technology for the purpose of connecting end users is not particularly clear.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Mtshali said that they are trialing WiMax and that the trial results look promising, but that there is no major advantage of WiMax over iBurst for to point-to-multipoint usage.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Mtshali did however point out that WiMax performed particularly well for point-to-point connectivity, something that can be of great value for backhaul bandwidth.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Rumours regarding Vodacom\u2019s interest in iBurst are partly centered around iBurst\u2019s WiMax spectrum, especially since WiMax is an attractive backhaul technology.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">It is unlikely that ICASA will provide the mobile providers with WiMax spectrum making iBurst a company which cellular operators like Vodacom may look at if they want to expand their current product offerings.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">3.5 GHz WiMax spectrum has also been allocated to Telkom, Sentech and Neotel.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=56539\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Discuss this article<\/a> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iBurst, one of the few companies with WiMax spectrum, said that it is currently still considering the feasibility of launching a WiMax service.<\/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-550608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550608"}],"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=550608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}