A group of wealthy businessmen have emerged as the financial backers of a former Vodacom employee’s civil claim involving the company’s “Please call me” service, Business Day reported on Monday. Pretoria attorney Chris Schoeman and two partners
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Open-access telecommunications infrastructure company FibreCo is turning its attention to its next big project after completing construction of a fibre-optic link between Johannesburg and East London. The 1 000km Johannesburg to East London route, which follows
The notion that a Vodacom employee could seek compensation for the idea for the “Please call me” service was “foreign”, former group CEO Alan Knott-Craig testified on Wednesday. “[At Vodacom] we did try and run a company based on respect
Former Vodacom CEO Alan Knott-Craig was accused of being evasive on Wednesday when asked if MTN planned to sue the company for stealing the “Please call me” idea. “Your worship, the witness is being evasive about it,” Cedric Puckrin, acting for former Vodacom
The invention of Vodacom’s “Please call me” service came under scrutiny when former Vodacom CEO Alan Knott-Craig testified in the high court in Johannesburg, Business Report reported on Wednesday. In Knott-Craig’s biography, Second is Nothing
Vodacom failed in a bid in the high court in Johannesburg to have the “Please Call Me” case scrapped, Business Report said on Tuesday. On Monday, the court denied an attempt by Vodacom to have the case set aside, and it was expected to resume this week. Former Vodacom employee
The MD of South Africa’s fourth mobile network operator, Telkom Mobile, has pooh-poohed suggestions that merging the company with Cell C would make sense for Telkom. Attila Vitai has told TechCentral that the move would make more sense for Cell C, South Africa’s third network operator, than it would for Telkom
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) ought to cut mobile termination rates in half, to 20c/minute, and do so at one fell swoop rather than using a “glide path” as it did when imposing previous cuts in the rates, says Telkom Mobile MD Attila Vitai. Termination
New service Ummeli is a more than just a free mobile job board for those who might not otherwise have access to such things, says project manager Lauren Kotzé. It’s also a resource for staffing nongovernmental organisations and a platform for young South Africans to share ideas and employment opportunities
South Africa’s third mobile operator Cell C says it has signed up more than a million customers in July already, setting a monthly record for sign-ups and bringing its total customer base to 11,7m. However, this figure is for gross connections. Net additions, which includes