{"id":972327,"date":"2025-11-07T07:32:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T02:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=972327"},"modified":"2025-11-07T07:45:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T02:15:21","slug":"vodacom-settles-17-year-legal-dispute-over-call-back-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/07\/vodacom-settles-17-year-legal-dispute-over-call-back-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom settles 17-year legal dispute over call-back service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG: South African telecoms group Vodacom said on Wednesday it had reached an out-of-court settlement in a dispute with a former employee over his role in creating the company&#8217;s call-back messaging service. The legal battle over the &#8220;Please Call Me&#8221; service has dragged on for about 17 years, reaching South Africa&#8217;s highest court.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shareholders are hereby advised that on 4 November 2025, the Vodacom board approved a settlement agreement and the matter was settled by the parties out of court,&#8221; Vodacom said in a statement on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG: South African telecoms group Vodacom said on Wednesday it had reached an out-of-court settlement in a dispute with a former employee over his role in creating the company&#8217;s call-back messaging service. The legal battle over the &#8220;Please Call Me&#8221; service has dragged on for about 17 years, reaching South Africa&#8217;s highest court. &#8220;Shareholders are hereby advised that on 4 November 2025, the Vodacom board approved a settlement agreement and the matter was settled by the parties out of court,&#8221; Vodacom said in a statement on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}