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    Home»News»Vodacom accused of stealing airtime idea

    Vodacom accused of stealing airtime idea

    News By Agency Staff10 March 2016
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    Vodacom is seeking the dismissal of a court bid that claims the company stole the idea for its “Airtime Advance” product.

    Airtime Advance allows subscribers who run out of airtime to get R5 or R10 in prepaid minutes on credit and only pay the next time they recharge.

    Customers who use the service then pay an extra R1 fee on their next recharge.

    Vodacom has confirmed that a business called Ndabenhle Business Enterprises has initiated a case at the high court in Johannesburg. The court will hear the matter on 18 April.

    “Vodacom can confirm that Ndabenhle Business Enterprises CC has indeed initiated a high court action against Vodacom claiming that a product we launched, ‘Airtime Advance’, is its idea,” the company said in an e-mailed statement.

    “Vodacom is defending this action and is seeking a dismissal of the case on the ground that the plaintiff’s particulars of claim do not disclose a cause of action. The claim is not supported by facts and pertinent evidence,” the company said.

    The Sowetan newspaper earlier this week reported that the court case has been launched by businessman John Khaba, through his company Ndabenhle Business Enterprises.

    The court bid claims that Khaba approached Vodacom with the Airtime Advance idea a year before Vodacom launched the service in 2011.

    Khaba is reportedly demanding 5c of every R1 that Vodacom has made from the service.

    The court case comes after Vodacom became embroiled in legal action over its “Please Call Me” service in recent years.

    Former Vodacom employee Nkosana Makate claims to have invented the “Please Call Me” service and the constitutional court late last year reserved judgment on the matter.

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