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Articles tagged with: Paltel
Paltel Boss to Take Over Zain's Merged Palestinian-Jordan Operations
The Zain Group has announced the appointment of Dr. Abdel Malik Al Jaber as CEO of the Zain Levant Region, which is made up of Zain Jordan and Palestine's paltel - with immediate effect. In addition to his new role as CEO of Zain Levant, Dr. Al Jaber has been appointed Acting General Manager of Zain Jordan, effective July 15, 2009. more
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Zain Takes Majority Stake in Palestinian Mobile Operator
Zain has announced that it is to take a majority stake in the Palestinian Telecommunications Company (paltel) in a share swap deal. Zain will transfer its ownership of its Jordan subsidiary to paltel in exchange for taking an equity shareholding of 56.53% in the enlarged company. more
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Zain in Talks with Palestinian Telecoms Operator
Kuwait based Zain has said that it is in talks to partner with the monopoly telecoms operator in the Palestinian Territories, paltel, which also operates a mobile network under the Jawwal brand name. more
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Palestinian Phone Network Affected by Shelling of Telecoms Exchange
paltel, the mobile phone network covering the Palestinian Territories has reported that its network has been badly disrupted by the ongoing military action by Israel in the Gaza Strip. paltel said that the interruption was a direct result of the continuous shelling on Jabalia's exchange which destroyed Jawwal's mobile towers. more
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Cisco Sys Signs Accord With Palestinian Telecom Co
SOUTHERN SHUNEH, Jordan (AP)--U.S. networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) signed a memorandum of understanding with a Palestinian telecommunications company Saturday on the sidelines of an international economic gathering in Jordan, setting the stage for developing the telecommunications infrastructure in the Palestinian territories. more
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Palestine's telecom market: Growing despite very adverse conditions
Despite very adverse economic and security conditions, the Palestinian fixed and cellular markets are growing at a good rate according to a report from the Arab Advisors Group. Mainlines grew at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 9.2% between 1999 and 2003, reaching 332,515 mainlines by September 2004, a penetration rate of 8.8%. The cellular market also grew at a very healthy (2000-2003) CAGR of 24.7%, and exceeded the 850,000 subscribers mark in October 2004. The Palestinian national operator paltel, and its GSM subsidiary Jawwal, face limited competition from the Israeli Bezeq (for paltel), and massive competition from four Israeli cellular operators (for Jawwal). more
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Palestinian Authority sells mobile stake
The Palestinian Authority has sold its stake in the local GSM network operator, Jawwal to help pay the wages of public sector workers. The Communications Minister, Azzam Al Ahmed, had earlier told Al Hayat Al Jadida newspaper that the Authority had sold its stake in Jawwal for US$42 million to the Palestinian company paltel Telecommunications. more
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Palestinian network sues Israeli competitors
Palestinian Telecommunications (paltel) has said that it is to sue two Israeli cellular networks for breaching its five year monopoly in the Palestine National Authority. The lawsuit is against Pelephone for US$160 million and against Cellcom for US$275 million. Hakam Kanafani, managing director of paltel's cellular unit Jawwal, told reporters that the action was not politically motivated, but driven by a desire to recoup lost revenue from the networks that were encroaching on its market. paltel claims that both Pelephone and Cellcom are offering cellular services in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, in violation of Palestinian telecoms law. However, it may be worth noting that paltel is understood to owe Pelephone's 50% share holder, Bezeq Israel Telecom several million dollars, and this could be a move to write off the debt, as well as secure funds for the network expansion. paltel has spent some US$120 million on its network so far." more
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Palestinian telecoms office closed in Jerusalem
An office belonging to the Palestinian Authority's telecoms monopoly, paltel has been closed by the Israeli Defence Force, as it lies inside the Abu Dis office compound in Jerusalem, which was closed last week. Officials has said that paltel staff will be admitted into the building in coordination with security officials on site so that the operations of the land-line and GSM network are not disrupted. "It is not the intention of the defense establishment to disrupt the commercial business activities of the company. It wishes to permit the normal management of economic-commercial related issues," a security services spokesperson said." more
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Palestinian network to be separated from parent
The Palestine Telecommunications Company (paltel) has announced that it is to spin off its GSM network into a separate company worth around US$35 million. paltel owns 65% of the GSM network, which trades as Jawwal, while a private company, Palestinian Commercial Services owns the remaining 35%. The company expects to have nearly half a million customers by the end of next year and is planning a US$11 million network expansion program." more
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