Orange (Israel)
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| Traded as | : PTNR NASDAQ: PTNR |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Founder | Hutchison Telecommunications International Limited, Elbit and Eurocom |
| Headquarters | Rosh HaAyin, Israel |
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Isaac Benbenisti (CEO) |
| Products | GSM, GPRS, UMTS, DC-HSPA+, LTE |
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| Owner | Free float (69.8%) S.B. Israel Telecom (30.2%) |
| Website | www.partner.co.il |
₪26 million (2016)Partner Communications Company Ltd. (Hebrew: חברת פרטנר תקשורת בע"מ) doing business as Partner (Hebrew: פרטנר), formerly known as Orange Israel (Hebrew: אורנג' ישראל), is a mobile network operator, internet Wi-Fi and fixed telephony service provider in Israel. It was formerly operating under the Orange brand name until 16 February 2016.
The company’s shares are traded on NASDAQ and the , where it is a constituent of the TA-25 Index; since August 2009, Scailex Corporation (owned by businessman Ilan Ben Dov) controls 51% of its shares.
Partner Communications commenced full commercial operations in January 1999 and by 31 March 2001 had over 1 million subscribers, representing an estimated 21% of the cellular market in Israel at that time. As of June 2016 it has 2.7 million subscribers.
The prefix (area code) for Partner customers is 054, although customers who requested to keep their old number from a different cellular company may have a different area code, as required by law.
On 15 January 2007 Partner was granted a license to provide terrestrial telecommunications nationwide which gives it the option to operate a wired telephony; initially the service was provided for large businesses only.
On 1 January 2009, the company commercially launched its ISP services and Landline services (based on the ) for private users and small businesses. These services rely on the combination of Nokia Siemens Network core services and Siemens Gigaset residential gateway. The combination of these allowed Partner to launch several unique services such as multiple calls on a single line, or *77 which allows users to choose whether to answer an incoming call on their home phone or their Orange mobile phone.
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