February 1, 2000

PalTel Introduces ISDN

Palestine Telecommunications will be offering Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN), in most of its service areas in the next few weeks. The new service has been authorized by the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (MoPT) and was announced by Suliman Mashriqi, PalTel marketing director.

According to Mashriqi, the telecommunications breakthrough is the result of enhancing and upgrading the services of the regular network. ISDN can provide faster, higher quality, telephone, fax, data, and photocopies transmission services. The availability of two fast 64kbps lines, enables customers to send faxes and make telephone calls during Internet connection.

Initial services will be offered in Nablus, Ramallah, Al-Bireh, Bethlehem, Hebron, Ar-Ram, Qalqiliya, Jenin and Gaza. ISDN call charges will follow the pricing of regular, local, national, and international calls. Bulletins regarding pricing will be distributed by the various customer service centers around Palestine.