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Ina Opperman
Prince Makate.
The former employee responsible for handling the data says Vodacom has data on exactly how many Please Call Me messages were sent, despite the mobile phone giant denying it.
The legal battle between Nkosana Makate, inventor of the Please Call Me (PCM) service, and Vodacom became more intense when the affidavit of a former senior Vodacom accountant, Teboho Motaung, was released stating that the mobile giant in fact has the data. required to calculate revenue generated by PCM.
Motaung joined Vodacom in 1995 as a trainee accountant at the same time as Makate, and explains in the affidavit that he “finds it quite absurd” that Vodacom, according to Makate’s supplemental affidavit, is questioning the availability of data from more than six months.
Makate wants to use the documents to prove that Vodacom owes him more than the R47 million it offered him for his invention. He wants Vodacom to pay him 20 billion rand.
“It was part of my job to get PCM data from Vodacom systems that would later be incorporated into spreadsheets. The worksheets are too complete to attach, but if the court requires it, I can submit them. It clearly shows that Vodacom tracked and kept records on the number of PCM applications submitted, ”it says in the affidavit.
The affidavit has been deposited with the court for the next round between Makate and Vodacom.
Vodacom files a variance request with Judge Jody Kollapen in North Gauteng Superior Court. Vodacom wants Judge Kollapen to modify his ruling in June by ordering the company to hand over documents detailing financial and contractual data for the past 18 years.
In its affidavit, Vodacom claims that the ruling required it to provide data that it no longer had.
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