28 April, 2001

Paltel Contracts with South Korea & Mauritania

During April, Palestine Telecommunications Company, Paltel, managed to sign mutual cooperation contracts with South Korea through the operator Korea Telecom, Mauritania through Mauritel, Nigeria, through NIGERIAN TELECOM, Belarus, through BelTelecom, and Aruba, through Setar, per allowing mutual exchange of international traffic through the new International code 970.

International & Arab countries recognizing and utilizing 970 exceed 102 operators around the world, 85 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.