{"id":188269,"date":"2017-07-26T16:38:17","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T14:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=188269"},"modified":"2017-07-26T16:38:17","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T14:38:17","slug":"telkom-wins-case-against-vodacom-for-unlawful-use-of-its-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/broadband\/188269\/telkom-wins-case-against-vodacom-for-unlawful-use-of-its-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Telkom wins case against Vodacom for unlawful use of its infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom says it has won a &#8216;landmark&#8217; case with costs against Vodacom at the Western High Court after it accused the company of\u00a0unlawfully using its cable infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom said it brought an urgent application against Vodacom relating to its \u201cunlawful use of its infrastructure in the Dennegeur residential estate, in Somerset West.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our concern was that Vodacom unlawfully accessed Telkom\u2019s duct infrastructure and we requested the court to order Vodacom to remove its cabling from our ducts,&#8221; the telco said in a statement on Wednesday, 26 July 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Telkom is pleased that the court ruled in our favour and agreed that our infrastructure may not be accessed without following prescribed regulatory process,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/188153\/afrihost-announces-new-lte-a-and-fixed-wireless-product-range\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Afrihost announces new LTE-A and fixed wireless product range<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom has won a case with costs against Vodacom after it accused the company of unlawfully using its cable infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":90052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5553],"tags":[65,27],"class_list":["post-188269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-telkom","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188269"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188291,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188269\/revisions\/188291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}