{"id":95481,"date":"2014-01-27T17:32:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T15:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=95481"},"modified":"2014-01-28T08:23:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T06:23:12","slug":"illegal-cell-c-tower-hidden-in-chimney-causes-a-stir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/95481-illegal-cell-c-tower-hidden-in-chimney-causes-a-stir.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Illegal&#8221; Cell C tower hidden in chimney causes a stir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Cell C\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/213919-Cell-C\">Cell C<\/a> CEO <a title=\"Alan Knott-Craig\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/224891-Alan-Knott-Craig-%28Senior%29\">Alan Knott-Craig<\/a>&#8216;s brother has upset neighbours by installing and disguising an illegally placed cellphone tower at his home in Graaf-Reinet, according to the Sunday Times.<\/p>\n<p>The tower, which was disguised as a chimney attached to Tony Knott-Craig&#8217;s house, was not given municipal approval, and drew suspicion from neighbours.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, it was discovered that Knott-Craig&#8217;s in-development braai area actually housed high-tech equipment and air-conditioners, all to service the tower.<\/p>\n<p>Cell C told MyBroadband that the cellular equipment at the house was installed for testing purposes. \u201cThe site was not commercially active,\u201d Cell C said.<\/p>\n<p>Cell C said that it halted the approval process as a decision was made to move the site to a more suitable location.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Cell C<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/banking\/94572-fnb-cell-c-sim-activation-backlog-cleared.html\">FNB Cell C SIM activation backlog cleared<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/94332-big-cell-c-security-flaw-uncovered.html\">Big Cell C security flaw uncovered<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/94186-cell-c-founding-member-dies.html\">Cell C founding member dies<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/93271-cell-c-gaining-at-mtns-expense-research.html\">Cell C gaining at MTN\u2019s expense: research<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cell C CEO, Alan Knott-Craig&#8217;s brother has upset neighbours by installing and disguising an illegally placed cellphone tower at his home in Graaf-Reinet, according to the Sunday Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":92771,"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":[14],"tags":[681,35,23335,23333],"class_list":["post-95481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-alan-knott-craig","tag-headline","tag-illegal-tower","tag-tony-knott-craig"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95481"}],"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=95481"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95567,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95481\/revisions\/95567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}