Cellcom (Israel)

Infobox Company
company_name = Cellcom Israel
company_
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company_type = Public (nyse|CEL)
genre =
foundation = 1994
founder = Dov Tadmor
location_city = Netanya
location_country = Israel
location =
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origins =
key_people = Ami Erel, Chairman
Nochi Dankner
Amos Shapira, CEO
Lipa Ogman, CTO
area_served = Israel
industry = Wireless Services
products = GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA, SMS, MMS, iMode
revenue = $1.57B (2007)
operating_income = $332M (2007)
net_income = $226M (2007)
num_employees = 3000
parent =
divisions =
subsid =
owner = Discount Investment Corporation Ltd. (part of the IDB Group), directly and indirectly- 52.6%
company_slogan = ככה זה כשאוהבים
homepage = http://www.cellcom.co.il
dissolved =
footnotes =

Cellcom (Hebrew: [http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/סלקום סלקום] ) (nyse|CEL) is a major Israeli telecommunications company. Founded in 1994, today, most of the company's business is centered around wireless service. Cellcom was the first to market mobile phones with Hebrew language menus.

During 1995, Cellcom experienced major network outages due to a software bug in Motorola Alpha handsets.cite web | title= Israelis and Others Feel the Sting of a Cellular Phone Bug | url= http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE5DC1130F937A2575BC0A963958260 | publisher = The New York Times | accessdate=2008-06-07]

Today, Cellcom is 78.5% owned by IDB and serves 3 million customers [http://investors.ircellcom.co.il/] . The company has 360 marketing outlets and 30 service centers countrywide and has 3,000 employees.

Cellcom currently operates an IS-136 TDMA network (in the 800/850 MHz band) and a GSM/GPRS/EDGE network in the 1800 MHz band which cover the entire state of Israel as well as a 3G (UMTS/HSDPA) network with a smaller footprint.

ports sponsorship

As of July 2007, Cellcom is the main sponsor of Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C..

ee also

* Cellular phone
* Mirs
* Orange
* Pelephone
* Communications in Israel

External links

* [http://www.cellcom.co.il Official website (Hebrew)]
* [http://investors.ircellcom.co.il/ Cellcom investor relations]

References