In theory, the matter has been settled as Vodacom and Makate have complied with the court's order of entering compensation negotiations. But the actual compensation process is still pending. Compensation amount In complaints filed to the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors and Companies and Intellectual Property Commission in April 2018 against Vodacom and its auditor PwC, for misrepresentation of annual financial statements, Makate said the telecommunications giant offered him R10 million as compensation. This figure is believed to be lower than Makate's legal fees, which are estimated to run in millions of rands, that he incurred for fighting Vodacom in court for more than ten years. Makate's legal representatives and a team of experts believe that his compensation runs into billions of rands. In one of his affidavits submitted to court, Makate's team concluded in 2015 that the Please Call Me invention generated R70 billion in revenue for Vodacom.