This follows Antitrust Authority approval of Partner and
Hot’s sharing agreement.
Mobile operators Cellcom Israel Ltd. (NYSE:CEL; TASE:CEL) and Golan Telecom Ltd. last night signed a network sharing agreement. Since its inception, Golan has used Cellcom’s nationwide network to provide its services but the new agreement sees network sharing in the full sense of the term and for all technologies: 2G, 3G, and 4G.
The significance of the agreement is that Golan Telecom will only have wireless operations and will not own antennas. In effect, from now on Golan Telecom will be a kind of MVNO virtual operator plus frequencies.
The agreement between the two operators was formulated in the wake of the publication of the Ministry of Communications’ policies and approval of the merger between Partner Communications Ltd. (Nasdaq: PTNR; TASE: PTNR) and HOT Mobile Ltd. by the Antitrust Authority.