The Constitutional Court will once again hear the Vodacom vs Makate case as the decades-long battle of Please Call Me continues.
Mobile telecommunications group Vodacom has informed shareholders that the ongoing Please Call Me matter will be heard by the Constitutional Court.
It then has until Thursday, 10 October to file written arguments. Makate’s team has until 17 October to file their written arguments.Vodacom has been fighting a decades-long battle over the Please Call Me service, brought by its purported inventor, Kenneth Makate. Makate’s legal team had initially demanded R20 billion to compensate him for his idea, based on a calculation that the Please Call Me product had generated R205 billion in revenue since its implementation.
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