PALESTINIANS TO GET 3G IN WEST BANK, AFTER ISRAEL LIFTS BAN
Palestinians in the West Bank are finally getting high-speed mobile data services, after a yearslong Israeli ban that cost their fragile economy hundreds of millions of dollars, impeded tech start-ups and denied them simple conveniences enjoyed by the rest of the world.
Palestinian cell phone providers Wataniya and Jawwal are expected to launch 3G broadband services in the West Bank by the end of this month, Palestinian officials said, after Israel assigned frequencies and allowed the import of equipment.
“It’s about time,”Wataniya CEO Durgham Maraee said of the anticipated launch, speaking to media at company headquarters
