The former Vodacom employee who claims to have come up with the idea for the “please call me” service has rejected a settlement tabled by the operator’s CEO, Shameel Joosub, describing the amount offered as “shocking and an insult”.
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Vodacom is paying out “reasonable compensation” to a former employee for his idea to develop a popular call-back service after a former CEO first took credit for the product.
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Vodacom and the Economic Freedom Fighters have issued a terse joint statement after alleged supporters of the radical-left political party were involved in trashing various cellular stores around the country.
Telkom customers will not be able to roam onto Rain’s network as part of the newly announced roaming agreement between Telkom and Vodacom.
Vodacom simply doesn’t have the network capacity to be able to sell access to its network on a wholesale basis to South African Internet service providers, CEO Shameel Joosub said on Thursday.
Johannesburg-headquartered Vodacom Group said on Saturday that it has become the first operator in Africa to launch a standards-based, commercial 5G network.
A redrafted version of the Electronic Communications Amendment Bill will be presented to cabinet by the end of next month, a move that could finally take South Africa a meaningful step closer to awarding new spectrum licences.
Vodacom Group had a robust first quarter of its 2019 financial year, growing subscriber numbers year on year by 2.5 million – 1.5 million of which were in South Africa.
Julius Malema’s Economic Freedom Fighters has threatened to “trash” Vodacom retail stores unless it pays Nkosana Makate, the man who was found by the courts have invented the popular “please call me” service, according to a report.






