NEW: Court orders Vodacom to pay Please Call Me inventor

South Africa’s highest legal authority, the Constitutional Court, has ruled that Vodacom must compensate the inventor of the Please Call Me SMS product.

The court on Tuesday morning found Vodacom was bound by an agreement with Kenneth Nkosana Makate who has said he invented the Please Call Me concept.

Makate conceived the Please Call Me concept in November 2000 and he approached Vodacom's director and head of product development at the time, Philip Geissler, about the idea, according to a summary from the Constitutional Court judgment.


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