PHOTOS: Protestors descend on Vodaworld
The ANC’s Liliesleaf Farm Branch and the Please Call Me Movement will meet on Thursday to plan the way forward in its battle with Vodacom.
The committee’s coordinator Benson Motsudi says the deadline it gave to the cellular giant to pay Please Call Me inventor Nkosana Makate had passed.
It originally gave Vodacom until 10 am on Thursday to pay Makate for his invention.
Motsudi was speaking on the sidelines of a protest outside Vodacom’s Vodaworld offices in Midrand, north of Johannesburg.
Vodacom and Makate are embroiled in a legal battle over compensation for the 'Please Call Me' invention.
In 2016, the Constitutional Court ordered the two parties to negotiate and to agree on reasonable compensation.
The network provider has put an offer on the table which Makate rejected, calling it an "insult".
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Motsudi echoed the call for Vodacom customers to boycott the network.
“That includes people porting their Vodacom numbers to either Telkom or other networks. But we will promote they port to Telkom, there is a reason for that.”
Motsudi says there are still plans for a future shutdown of Vodacom.
“Today Vodacom shut themselves down… we could not hand over the memorandum. Obviously, we have to come here when the is someone to hand over the memorandum to.”
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