28 March, 2001

Paltel Contracts with Germany & Hong Kong

During March, Palestine Telecommunications Company, Paltel, managed to sign mutual cooperation contracts with Germany through the operator Tele2, with Hong Kong, through Cable & Wireless HKT and Andora, through STA-Andora, per allowing mutual exchange of international traffic through the new International code 970.

International & Arab countries recognizing and utilizing 970 exceed 96 operators around the world, 80 of which are foreign countries. According to Suleiman Mashriqi, Paltel's Marketing Director: "Further mutual agreements with more operators are under way till linking to the whole world".

Palestine independent international telephone code 970 has been regained during 1998 through extensive efforts with the International Telecommunications Union, ITU, in 1998, thus international traffic is currently being routed through this new code replacing the 972 Israeli code.